Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and most powerful impression of Russia was one of fantastic decrepitude; almost everything - roads and railways, buildings new or old - is in a state of the utmost decay. Leaving Moscow, the main roads are of tar for a certain distance, and then either dwindle into narrow strips, or revert to broken and undulating cobbles and to earth...
Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...
Forty-eight steps are necessary to transform orthotoluidine, the coal-tar product, into cortisone. Less than 20 steps are required to obtain cortisone from oxbile, the raw material used in the present process...
Little hope for the large scale production of cortisone from simple starting materials within the near future was seen yesterday by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of Chemistry, whose announcement that two teams of Harvard scientists had synthesized a chemical relative of cortisone from a common coal tar derivative created a sensation among chemists this spring...
...shore, the young tar had a rather quieter time. He once went hard-alee for a pretty little Portuguese, and had to do some tricky navigation to get out of port; but in general, says the prim old sea dog, "I always kept a straight course and gave them a wide berth, as I had no use for painted-faced daisies...