Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British refused, stationed 30 German police at the Kurbel. A crowd of 300 D.P.s bore down on the theater, smashed its marquee, began a free-for-all with the police. Rubber truncheons and fire hoses did little to check the rioters, some of whom-dared the police to go ahead and shoot. A British officer was beaten amid cries of "Fascist!" Some German passers-by pounced on the Jews, but most only watched. When rocks began to fly, one elderly German woman was seen carrying stones for the Jews to throw...
...Western Union engineers finally perfected a rubber insulator for telegraph poles, which is impervious to damage from hunters' bullets or small boys' rocks...
...deal with the wave of future radiation, sanitary engineers should have Geiger counters and know how to use them. They will have to watch carefully all producers and users of radioactive material. They will have to make plumbers wear rubber gloves when cleaning "active" drain traps. They must test rivers, water supplies and sewers to make sure that no radioactivity has slipped...
...Provided He Settle." During the war years (which he spent partly in the U.S. working on the synthetic rubber program), Weizmann listened hopefully to the friendly reassurances of Churchill and Roosevelt, and with special interest to Churchill's proposition that King Ibn Saud after the war be "made lord of the Middle East . . . provided he settle with...
...their mad hunger. They flung themselves on the dust bins, or rather plunged into them, head and shoulders, several at a time; they scratched up everything, absolutely everything that was lying in them, potato peel, garbage, rottenness of every kind . . . The whole time, without a break, the blows from rubber truncheons were hailing down on them...