Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will alone) had been whining at the wall that held the mural for 450 seasons. In Leonardo's own lifetime the wall began to show splotches of dampness. Over the centuries, well-meaning restorers flattened out blisters and bandaged the picture's cracks with liberal applications of plaster, painted over to resemble the chilblained masterpiece beneath. Five separate times, at least, alien hands overlaid Leonardo's mural...
Gumshoe. In Toledo, while investigating a murder. Sheriff's Captain Alfred Bartkowiak excitedly warned other officers to keep away from a "perfect" heel print until a plaster cast could be made, found out next...
...group had put up only $15,000 of its own money to receive an FHA-insured loan of almost $22 million. Since the project cost only $18 million, the promoters pocketed the $4,000,000 difference. A committee investigator who had looked over the apartments found leaking roofs, cracked plaster, and testified that unless extensive repairs are begun soon "the buildings will not be standing in 30 years...
...Cantrell cannot be choosy about his work. His job as "investigator" for the Trustee Personal Finance Co. is to hound the "slows." He soon finds that the slows' lot is not a happy one, either. Families live in crowded walk-ups where dank, paintless walls "shed their plaster skin revealing the ribs of lath." Unkempt women in faded dressing gowns are readier with a pound of flesh than a $5 payment. Industrious Dan cannot remain stony before genuine hardship, eventually decides he has had enough of the "easy payment" world. Author Doyle, a credit manager in his nonwriting hours...
Married. Sally Rand, 52, tireless fan-dancer; and Fred Lalla, 35, former Los Angeles plaster contractor; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. One hour after the ceremony, she discarded her wedding dress and stood coyly nude on the stage of Las Vegas' Silver Slipper Saloon...