Word: slabbed
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...Priciest Slab of Cholesterol Japan's richly marbled Kobe beef, from beer-fed cattle, was featured for the first time on the menus of a few U.S. restaurants. For $100 or so, you could order an inch-high steak weighing...
...into mainstream films as it would be to fit his wonderfully preposterous name on a movie marquee. Even after he scored a worldwide hit in his first starring role, as a primeval pillager in Conan the Barbarian, he was still seen as a fluke or a freak. Could this slab of sirloin beefcake act? It hardly mattered. He could fill the film frame superbly. He was also lucky. With the box-office triumph of Star Wars, Hollywood was back in the action- fantasy business. And with producers spending millions on optical gadgetry, Arnold was a bargain: here was a star...
...stories tall, but it is marvelously narrow -- a mere 50 ft. wide. New buildings of this height usually contain two or three times as much square footage; no matter how interesting or tarted up, such behemoths almost inevitably darken and oppress their bit of the city. This slender, elegant slab is like a dancer among thugs...
...works at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, says he found representations of the Pharaoh's Canaanite campaign chiseled into stone blocks at the Karnak temple in Luxor, Egypt. According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory is correct, these images would predate the earliest known depiction of the Israelites by six centuries. The figures in the bottom slab depict Merenptah's defeat of the Canaanite city...
Patrick Wallace, a worker in a local paper plant, shinnied up a tree to reach the fallen highway. He saw two women dead in a flattened auto. Then he heard "one little whimper" from the backseat. Pinned beneath a slab of concrete and the body of his mother was Julio Berumen, 6. His less seriously injured sister, Cathy, 8, also lay there. For nearly an hour, Wallace struggled to free the boy. Once he felt movement. "But it turned out it was just the clothing sliding from his body...