Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trail to the chamber started on top of the pyramid which supports the Temple of Inscriptions. A flat stone slab was found to have a crack in it, and workmen prying away at the crack discovered a dark flight of steps leading down into the pyramid. Ruz knew at once that he had a chance at an archaeological jackpot; Mayan pyramids are not supposed to have stairways in them...
Great Altar. Behind the wall was a mass of rubble cemented tightly together with lime carried down by percolating rainwater. Behind this was a corridor, at the end of which was a massive stone slab. The workmen pried at its edges, and poked a hole into empty space. Ruz pointed a flashlight into the ancient blackness and saw glistening white stalactites hanging in curtains from the roof. Beyond was a great stone altar covered with the tortured shapes of Mayan hieroglyphs...
...spite of its 500,000 cards, the index is still not complete. In one day, a staff member may have to catalogue an 6th century statue, a 6th century painting, a 9th century illuminated manuscript, a 4th century funeral slab. He may have to catalogue each work in several different ways-by character, by scene (e.g., Christ teaching), by object (e.g., Solomon's Temple). Finally, he has to enter his information on one of 16 different types of cards-grey for textiles, brown for leather, white for sculpture...
...slab-sided U.N. Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan's jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it as a great architectural achievement. Other people have referred to it scornfully as "a sandwich on edge." Last week Author-Critic Lewis Mumford, writing in The New Yorker, knocked it flat-on paper...
Winchester admitted that the slab was a bit chipped, but this was the work of Yankee soldiers who passed through Winchester during the War Between the States. Furthermore, they asked, where else except in Winchester could the general's remains lie surrounded by the graves of Revolutionary heroes "who formed themselves into a bodyguard and were pledged to follow wherever...