Word: veneering
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...Here, in this ghoulish little scene, is the essential horror story of our time . . . This Roman holiday in staid old Boston proves again how thin is the veneer of our Christianity...
...picnics unproductive and insect ridden, there is no reason to despair in the springtime. For spring is the variety season in Boston; there's more than a football game or a basketball fix to keep your interest up weekends. And you might get a particular high polish on your veneer of culture without any particular effort...
...than he had been since the day in 1915 when he was caught carrying a pistol. He faced a perjury charge, contempt of Congress, and he might be subject to deportation as well. In three short days, Frank Costello could see the destruction of the power and the respectable veneer he had been 35 years abuilding...
Negotiation with the Chinese Communists is probably the only way of preserving even a veneer of world peace. It would not be appeasement, in the sense that the surrender of Munich in 1938 was appeasement, but a recognition that our Asian policy no longer bears any relation to the realities of the situation. Stamping our collective foot at Communist China and calling it illegal has not worked, and now we must come to some sort of agreement. It is possible that the Communists do not want war, and are really concerned about the sanctity of their borders. And if they...
Ottinger, who is so full of nervous energy that he seldom sits still for five minutes, is not letting U.S. Plywood rest on its spectacular growth. This week he announced the completion of a new $600,000 hardwood-veneer mill in the Belgian Congo. Next month, at a new $2,000,000 plant in Anderson, Calif., he will start production of a new plywood, "Novoply," whose exclusive U.S. rights he bought from its Swiss inventor. It is, says Ottinger, the first successful use of waste wood chips as a satisfactory center for plywood panels, will cut production costs so tremendously...