Word: waxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tablets, which bore an early form of the Elamite language, and 84 blank tablets were found on the floor of one room. Large jars for grain storage and cylindrical seals to make impressions in wax were also found...
...talk to anyone who has come to us expressing his own interest in the decision. But we're reluctant to add any names at this point because, after all, we're not going to try to spring a new man on everyone and go through the whole ball of wax-with group discussions and everything-again...
...Kosher of the Counterculture" [Nov. 16]: I am not a food faddist or cultist-and I am revolted by orange dye in my oranges, wax on my cucumbers, preservatives in my "fresh" mushrooms. Give me an apple with some marks on it that show it was just as tempting to an insect as it will be delicious and life-giving to me. But that kind of apple is neither cheap nor easy to buy. I wouldn't care so damned much about these food mutations and experiments if corporate greed were not using them to force the real thing...
...blotting paper, gun powder and sealing wax...
...wonder if this admission will become part of Baba scripture. Considering the supreme importance Baba and his followers placed on the speaking of the Word, saying that Baba's weakness was his failure to speak it is something like saying that the weakness of wax-winger Icarus was that he flew too near...