Word: tars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Russians build on frozen ground, they sink piles deep into the permafrost, melting the holes with steam jets. The piles are then wrapped in tar paper and greased, so that the topsoil, freezing and thawing with the seasons, cannot stick to them and heave them. But piles are scarce in much of Alaska, and Army engineers think they know something better: thick insulating mats to keep the permafrost always frozen...
...stuff in his Manhattan duplex, tries it out on his wife and a secretary. He is pleased when people compare him to ex-Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, thinks "Pegler at his best is the best technical writer I ever read." But Ruark does not aim to get stuck to any tar-baby, like labor-baiting, Roosevelt-hating...
...Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin'. "How you come on, den? Is you deaf...
Brer Rabbit, sezee. "Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder," sezee. Tar-Baby stay still, en Brer...
President Harry Truman just sat there, like the Tar-Baby. The most untroubled man in the U.S. last week seemed to be its President...