Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
Wallant's people are the walking wounded and unofficial dead of the affluent society. They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among...
...year-round lead poisoning problem. Interior paints used to contain a great deal of the metal; most exterior paints still contain some, but far less than formerly. Crawlers and toddlers in the chew-everything age nibble porch rails and windowsills, chew flakes of old paint or chips of painted plaster and take the lead into their systems, where it is deposited, much like calcium, in the bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that are bafflingly similar to those of other illnesses: bellyache, nausea, vomiting...
...great that last week the Illinois Council for Mentally Retarded Children was agitating to have a state of emergency declared in Chicago. Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman chose what seemed to him more practical measures. He arranged to have 30 building inspectors take special evening courses in paint and plaster peeling problems. With every poisoning case reported, the inspectors can go to the home and check the paint and plaster. If they are laced with lead, the board of health can close the house...
Junpei is a hobo full of heart and uncommon ingenuity. He wears a remarkable garment fitted out with pockets for everything: tools, utensils, pots, food packets, soy sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although...