Word: stucco
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Last summer Dr. Lehmann's workers attacked a shapeless mound near one of the larger buildings. Back in Manhattan last week, Archaeologist Lehmann described the results. Under the rubble they found a well-preserved stucco floor which had been painted red and later green. This, they decided, was the storehouse for votive gifts. Some of the gifts were still there, imbedded in cracks in the floor. Among them were a gold ring, a large silver nail, parts of gilded bronze statues. The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were...
...floor stood a "float": a block of stone with a handle on it, that was used to smooth stonework or stucco. Archaeologist Lehmann likes to think that the float was in use when Emperor Theodosius' edict (and probably the Emperor's soldiers) arrived in the sacred valley, and that it has remained there ever since the day the Great Gods died...
...that came out of Los Angeles was, of all news stories, the one he had dreaded most. Because of this fear, no one ever dared mention Death in Hearst's presence. For four years he had suffered from heart disease and had been confined to the sprawling, overdressed stucco home of his great and good friend and companion, Marion Davies...
...studio only six months each year. That left him free, before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen, 2, and Elissa, 8 months, his still-doting parents, the ancient Victrola of his childhood and a gold 45-r.p.m. record that RCA Victor presented to him for selling so many of its Vinylite cousins...
...silver & gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...