Word: waxed
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...strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them all in and jammed the cover on, smashing several wax seals from say 1430 in the process. E beh? As the archivist said later--these things have lasted 500 years, how much longer do you want them to last...
...William Bryant of Trenton performed tests on a torpedo of Surinam and proved that it could send a shock "through metallic substances, like an old sword blade," but when the sword was "armed with sealing wax, the electric fluid would not pass...
...pieces provide a view of history as a museum display. Like a wax museum it has its chambers of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by aesthetic distance...
What are George Washington's new false teeth made from? Hippopotamus tusks set in pink sealing wax...
...comfortable with technology. For someone who mastered with infectious enthusiasm retro rockets and fuel tanks, and could wax positively ecstatic over a million pounds of thrust, he cannot rewind his tape recorder. The mighty fall hard: midway through our interview, which Cronkite said he was taping "for my memoirs," the tape...