Word: waterproofed
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...work in time. Months are spent in building a raft, piece by piece and then storing it in a grave, only to have a fellow prisoner squeal. But Papillon still has money, left from more than 10,000 underworld francs that he put in a plan, a small, polished, waterproof metal tube, harbored in his lower intestine. Papillon is also stirred by dreams of revenge as well as a longing to go straight and start a new life. Sent to solitary for two years, he performs a prison miracle: surviving without going mad. His pals smuggle extra food...
...have a Ted Kennedy wristwatch, waterproof, of course. I'm sure Ethel would love...
...criticism centered upon the inclusion of $30,000 to waterproof the Peabody Terrace buildings as a current operating expense instead of as a capital improvement. This way the expenditure is accounted as occuring in one year instead of over forty
...toughest task was to develop a throwaway that was soft yet strong and moistureproof. For that, the engineers came up with a three-part design consisting of a quick-drying inner lining of soft rayon-like material, a middle layer of absorbent tissue wadding, and an outer sheet of waterproof polyethylene. By way of acknowledging that babies differ widely, the designers made Pampers in three sizes-"newborn," "daytime" and "extra strength" for overnight...
...scuttled the boat, stashing aboard it a waterproof bag with $480,000, then took off through the waist-deep swamp toward the lights of El Jobean, a tiny fishing village. He never made it. Two Charlotte County deputies stalked him until finally he paused to rest directly in front of them. "We turned the light on him, and there he was, crouched down on a log, just sitting there," said Deputy Milton Buffington. They found $17,-000 in his pocket...