Word: plywood
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From ground level to about 16 feet down, the earth beneath the Abri Pataud is a series of thin layers, like a plank of plywood. Each layer, or stratum, is half-an-inch or so thick. Many of these strata constitute "occupation layers": buried within each are flint and bone objects that accumulated as the layer slowly accumulated during geological history. Some of the layers represent a year's occupation of the Abri Pataud; others contain the relics of 10, 20 or more years. A few yield no bones or man-made objects for they were laid down while...
...comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example: an outlandish hotel on the outskirts of Rangoon), the Red Chinese have promised to build the Burmese a mill to make paper from bamboo, erected small textile and plywood plants in Cambodia...
Eternal Sounds. A plywood screen behind the orchestra only partially deflected Mediterranean breezes, and musicians were forced to clip their scores to their stands with wooden clothespins. Casals seemed unbothered; his back to the sea, he swung into Bach's Sonata in G. Performers who had been worried about the open theater's acoustics soon learned to forget their fears. The Romans had staged dramas, musical contests and water ballets at Caesarea, and the ancient impresarios knew their business. In the slow second movement, sustained, vibrant notes, clear and fragile as crystal, rippled to the topmost rows...
...dreary similarity of the "official" architecture, Russian cities tend to look alike. In Siberia it is even more so, since a raw frontier flavor still persists. Irkutsk is typical of Siberian cities, sprawling across both banks of the Angara River and surrounded by industrial suburbs whose factories turn out plywood as well as machine tools; bricks, knitwear and cement as well as tractors. In the city, the old is carelessly mixed with the new. Many streets are potholed and puddled, lined with haphazard wooden hovels that have leaned crazily for years. Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with...
...army is also the major driving force in the economy, through the Defense Services Institute set up eleven years ago and now headed by Aung Gyi; the institute has energetically boosted the development of vital small industry (such as a fishing combine, a plywood company, a shipping line), will play a major role in Burma's first four-year plan...