Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plaster death mask was taken soon after the royal person died. Sometimes the mask was painted in lifelike colors; sometimes carvers made a faithful wooden copy. A rough body of straw or wood clothed in robes of state was added...
...Churchill's sage advice as the operational order was drawn for a routine, company-size raid by the U.S. 7th Division on the Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...
...wall mosaics were congealed for centuries by plaster and whitewash in two churches--the great Hagai Sophia, and a smaller monastic church, the Karich Djami, both in Istanbul...
...mosaics were made by patterning small Pieces of colored glass or stone into plaster applied to the walls...
Sculptor Zorach took three years to carve his warmly maternal Mother and Child from a three-ton chunk of rose-colored marble. In the sculpting, he ignored the common practice of making a plaster model and translating it into stone mechanically. In an older and more honored tradition, Zorach worked the marble freehand, using a small plaster model only as a guide...