Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering crime he has been slugged, kicked, lunged at with knives, shot at, knuckle-dusted and was once the target of a speeding automobile that raced onto the sidewalk of a narrow Soho street and tried to smash him against a building. Last week Webb was still wearing a plaster cast on his right wrist, broken two months ago when a London gangster known as "Jack Spot" objected to one of his stories by attacking Webb in a back alley of the city...
Tasteful borders of carved wooden or plaster masks, expressing the emotion under examination, would have really done wonders for the film. In future, this is the direction that wide films should take. Carved decorations in the awkward borders, for one thing, would relieve actors of projecting emotion. Henceforth, when a pretty young friend of some producer wants to register anger, instead of furrowing her generally marble brow, she need only point, with languid grandeur, toward the appropriate mask. Her charm need not be destroyed by the necessity of acting. This could mean great things for the future of television...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...
...dedicate the new Eisenhower Memorial Museum. Ike himself was surprised at the number of people who waited along highways and streets to catch a glimpse of him. On a tour of the old Eisenhower home he was visibly annoyed when he saw that tourists had gouged pieces of plaster out of the house's walls as souvenirs...
...blow struck, they were closed now and could mirror nothing. Her face was not distorted at all; it was in remarkable repose considering how she died. But the wounds on her forehead and cheeks were too numerous and too gaudy, like the wounds of St. Sebastian in the cheap plaster statues seen in the churches of little Italian towns. Marilyn's slayer was an extravagant slayer, wasteful of blows...