Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared to name, but that wouldn't do. He was after the weather-resistant kind...
...Goiaz cops seemed to be in any hurry to make an arrest. One police captain who had denounced Gurgel's murder to his chief was even disciplined for insubordination. But at week's end no cop had yet dared to erase from a plaster wall in the square the words someone had dabbed there with a stick dipped in Reporter Gurgel's blood: HERE DIED A JOURNALIST DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS...
...look at another monument to U.S. history: a statue to be placed in a memorial at Normandy's Omaha Beach, where some 9,300 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen are buried in a military cemetery. The plaster model showed a 22-ft. figure (to be cast in bronze) of a semi-nude youth with rippling loincloth, his head and arms flung up and out, apparently on the point of taking off heavenward...
...around Rome, work was going forward on a production by a new screen writer: Homer. With assists from such upstart scenarists as Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw, Homer's Odyssey was being filmed in plaster caves and palaces and on board a Greek galley (thoughtfully provided with an engine as well as 100 oarsmen). The stars: Kirk Douglas as a bearded Ulysses, and lush Silvana Mangano as both Circe and Penelope...
...Floor Plaster. A new, concrete-like material which can be used as a flooring or in place of wall plaster is being marketed by Surface Coatings, Inc. of Atlanta. Water resistant and able to withstand heavier shocks than either plaster or regular concrete, it is made with a latex and water binder which makes it stick to masonry, plaster, wood, glass or metal. As terrazo flooring, it needs to be applied only a quarter inch thick, compared to the usual 1 to 1½ in. Price: 75? per sq. ft. for terrazo flooring...