Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bachite process, the steel is first "pickled" (cleaned with acid), then coated in a chemical bath and heated. Depending on the degree of baking, the coated steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, the color becoming an integral part of the surface. Oscar Bach will not reveal the chemicals in the coating bath. "The formula," says he, "is so simple I'm almost ashamed of it." The Bachite process is used in the building industry for exteriors and decorations. A recent example is the flashy Bach-designed decoration of Manhattan's Airlines Terminal Building...
...stated: "To elect anyone besides Camacho required a miracle. . . ." Wouldn't a little horse sense reveal that it would take a miracle to overcome the following? "Camacho's pre-election backing embraced . . . Cardenas and . . . the Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the CTM, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members." Also . . . the Agrarian party which boasts more than a million members and which also declared for Camacho. A little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote...
...favorite device for eliminating an actress from a script is to reveal that the character she portrays has to go away to have a baby. Few weeks ago, Alice Frost, who plays the title role in CBS's Big Sister, managed to get away from it all when Scripteuse Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to recuperate. In order to bring Big Sister back at the end of this month, Miss Bartlett is planning to have a drunken no-good set fire to a tenement, blister...
...Italian south coast at a moment when the Italians might suppose him preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next day Sir Andrew encountered the Italians...
...trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal what is going on in their dim souls...