Word: porousness
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...determined. Unlike American heating oils, this oil is of an inferior grade; it is black, thick, and totally unrefined. Restorers have had considerable experience with the oils from lipstick which tourists often use to smear their initials on the major monuments. Lipstick oils, they have found, sink into the porous surface of the stone and are very difficult to remove. But no one has had any experience with the effect of this crude heating oil on paper, panels, canvas, or stone...
...extremists- the Mao-Lin Piao faction-as very actively anti-Soviet, and they have recently lost hope that in the struggle inside China the extremists can be defeated." Ironically, what worries the Russians most is not a major Chinese attack, but gradually expanding Chinese guerrilla infiltration of the porous border area. As the Russians are uncomfortably aware, the Chinese have for years laid claim to thousands of square miles of land that now lie within the Soviet Union, and still record it on their maps as Chinese territory...
Last week all of Britain wondered where Blake was: Scotland Yard staked out the abandoned R.A.F. airstrips around London, put a watch on the docks, kept a discreet eye on the Russian and East European embassies. Seven other spies were transferred to less porous prisons, and the Home Office appointed Lord Mountbatten to investigate the scandalous state of security in British jails, which have been losing inmates at the rate of ten a week. A more fascinating question concerned neither Blake's whereabouts nor his means of escape. Rather, it was a question of identity: Who and what...
Insect Sauce. Collegium and King together preside over a land that, for all its advantages, is not without problems. By far the most troublesome region is the northeast, along the porous Mekong River frontier with Laos. There, nearly a third of the kingdom's subjects live in a swirl of powdery red dust. Ethnically and linguistically more closely related to the Lao than the central Thai, the northeasterners scratch out a subsistence living from the cracked earth, supplementing their diets of rice and rotten fish with such regional delicacies as eels, ant eggs, fried cicadas and fresh cucumbers served...
...passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...