Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hydraulic Stretch. The surveying had to be done at night because daytime heat foiled the accuracy of the surveyors' instruments. The next step was to pour a continuous slab of reinforced concrete 6½ miles long with adjustable fasteners for the rails, which are 7 ft. apart and three times as heavy as railroad rails. They came in 3Q-ft. sections and were welded together on the spot into 10,000-ft. lengths. Merely fastening them to the concrete slab would not do; the temperature of the Tularosa Basin fluctuates between zero and 120°F. If the rails...
...basilica. Nothing is sold inside except candles; visitors must dress as they would in church. Under the present Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Pierre-Marie Théas, the grotto has regained much of its 'original rustic simplicity; he replaced the ornate altar with a simple stone slab, took down the iron grille that used to stretch across the front of the cave, removed all but a few of the hundreds of crutches and orthopedic braces left behind by sufferers who found relief at Lourdes...
...Foghorn Voice." Murrow, who lives on Park Avenue and gets his suits from a Savile Row tailor, started out, on April 25, 1908, named Egbert, the son of a tenant farmer, in a log-slab house near Pole Cat Creek in North Carolina's Guilford County, twelve miles south of Greensboro. He was the youngest of Ethel and Roscoe Murrow's three boys. The eldest, Lacy, rose to be an Air Force brigadier general in the 18th Tactical Air Command, and is now a transportation consultant in Washington. The other, Dewey, is a contractor in Spokane...
...slabs of limestone and alabaster that were still partly white when they were excavated are now, almost three millenniums after their original installation, the color of old ivory. Permitting fleeting glimpses of a completely vanished civilization, the sculptured stones show the King and his attendants at religious ceremonies. On one 58¼-by-53⅞-in. slab (opposite) a formalized, warriorlike Assur-nasir-pal II grasps his bow in his left hand as he balances a chalice on the fingers of his right hand. Behind him stands a personal attendant dressed in knee-length tunic, broad waistband, fringed mantle...
...change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...