Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...
...bishops spoke not only as good Catholics but as patriotic Germans. To Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, they pointed out the "rampart of bitterness and enmity" rising against Germans because of religious persecution in occupied lands, denounced Nazi persecution in language he could understand: "unwise politically...
...burgeoning plastic-metals industry had another achievement to report last week. Hefty Andy Langhammer, head of Chrysler's Amplex Division, announced that his workmen were making tool steel from soft iron rust...
...postmistresses at Granogue, Del. (pop.: 96) were Du Pont heiresses Eleanor du Pont Rust and Sophie du Pont May. They learned that the post office was about to close for lack of a mistress, took the job for a joint salary of $600 a year...
...speech went on his voice seemed to lose its fire. . . . In the final sentences his voice dropped and I could not hear his last three words. But I could see then that the steam in the old boiler chugging along for ten years had taken its toll of rust...