Word: veneered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was an air of mystery about him, a hint of longings and disappointments beneath the veneer of privilege. It may have been the company he kept, a circle that embraced society matrons and jazz musicians but few people he could call friends. It may have been the parties, those lavish buffets for 600 or so at his 30-room Park Avenue penthouse or his vast Long Island estate, functions at which he never seemed quite at ease. During the 1920s and '30s, when his magazines-Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden-were setting standards of taste and fashion...
...tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead and an additional 100 missing last week after the suppression of a bizarre coup that, though it failed, cracked the veneer of Kenyan stability, which has endured during 19 years of independence...
...published in 1962. The immigrant is now 32, the year is 1909, and Anatolian-born Stavros, or Joe Arness, as his American friends call him, has finally saved up enough money to bring his whole family: "Mommah," four brothers and three sisters to the U.S. He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople. Even more important, in the two decades since Stavros' first arrival on the bestseller lists, Kazan, the stage and screen director, has learned to write...
Gauri, who has worked on the Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, proposes that the Egyptians flush out the Sphinx's salt deposits and replace part of its veneer with low-salt stone and mortar. "If the work is done right," says Gauri, "it should last as long as the stones of the pharaohs...
Last October a section of veneer in the statue's left haunch collapsed. The Egyptians postponed consideration of Gauri's plan, formed seven committees to study the problem, and began to repair the Sphinx's left side. In the Egyptian view, the main threat to the Sphinx is not from humidity but from the higher water table...