Word: plastering
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After seven years of intermittent carving, stroking, currying and patting, 70-year-old Herbert Haseltine had completed at last his "masterpiece"-a bigger-than-life-size plaster cast of famed race horse...
...Plaster dust had chased out only one Claverly resident, a final check of figures by the Housing office revealed yesterday. With most of the plaster down and reconstruction beginning, the residents have decided to stay where they were rather than go to the trouble of moving...
Workmen are now shoring up the 54-year-old building which was discovered to be badly sagging several weeks ago. Although most of the plaster dust which caused the student protest has been removed in an intensive cleanup campaign, a thin layer still covers the corridors...
Started originally as a minor plastering job, work really began in earnest when workmen discovered that the 54 year old building was badly sagging. Instead of putting on the plaster, men equipped with wrecking bars changed to ripping it off to get at the walls...
...order to get to rooms during the day students have been forced to wade through piles of plaster and laths sometimes six inches high...