Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the 'Punies were disengaged, the CRIMSON shell, dodging between the obstructive wherries which 'Poon editors rowed in its path, shot under the Weeks Memorial footbridge. In a final, desperate attempt more 'Punie hopefuls hurled sacks of flour and a rubber dinghy after it. But it was no use, for upping the stroke to a climatic 48, the Crimeds stretched to a racing finish and crossed the line as cheers echoed across the river
...rubber balls buzzed like black bees. They slithered along the walls, caromed in crazy zigzags, whupped out of the corners at speeds over 50 m.p.h., or died on the floor in tiny, whirling bounces of reverse English. Flailing away with either hand, the scurrying players ricocheted shots off all four walls and the ceiling. At the staid Los Angeles Athletic Club, the ninth annual championship of the U.S. Handball Association was in full swing...
...thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily at this scented rubber bone...
...equally evident in his dealings with East and West. After a flurry of deals last year with the Soviet-bloc nations he is now slipping from their deadly embrace. A Red Chinese delegation has cooled its heels for a month in Colombo trying to arrange a new rice-for-rubber barter, after the other one worked out badly. Of 16 ambitious projects to be set up with Soviet Russian aid, only one-a sugar factory-is beyond the planning stage. Banda's smiles are currently lavished on the U.S. aid missions, which since 1956 have spent $36 million...
...parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit 200 million tons of 55.6%-grade iron ore found twelve years ago south of the Negro River. The government has also approved plans by Houston's Butadiene & Chemical Corp. to invest $40 million for three big petrochemical plants for synthetic rubber, carbon black and butadiene gas near Comodoro Rivadavia, plus another $17 million for an aviation-gasoline plant...