Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peppery General Sir Gerald Templer, Britain's High Commissioner for the Communist-bandit-ridden Malayan Federation, flew in to London to report to the British Colonial Office on his first tour of duty in the rubber-rich equatorial peninsula. In machine-gun tones, he rattled off his news...
...effort would be made to treat it. Her "acute mania" went untreated and got worse. From her record for Sept. 6, 1892: "Very disorderly and untidy. Nervous and tears her clothing. She has to be fed." For Dec. 29, 1893 (when she was 24): "Unchanged. Received a rubber doll for Christmas and seemed quite pleased with...
Soft Diet. In Copenhagen, when German Sword Swallower Paul Heinrich Ross developed indigestion, he refused to let a doctor put a rubber tube into his stomach because "I just can't bring myself to swallow...
Blows & Ice Water. "At daybreak, the cops returned and gave me back my clothes. I was blindfolded again, led into another room, and placed in a spinning chair. They spun it until I vomited with nausea. Then I was knocked to the floor, beaten with a rubber hose and doused with ice water. After that they took me to a cell and left me alone...
When a fellow artist predicted that Diego Rivera's underwater murals at Mexico City's new waterworks were bound to wash away (TIME, June 18, 1951), Diego snapped: "Tell him to go to hell." Rivera mixed polystyrene with his pigments and coated the whole thing with transparent rubber. But last week, less than a year after the water began to flow over his murals, Diego had to acknowledge that the submerged parts were indeed beginning to fade. As usual, he had an explanation: "It is because of the bad quality of the water. It contains mud, crude...