Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst bombing error of the long Indochina war. At least 137 Cambodians were killed and 268 wounded. A mile-long string of more than 30 craters, running down the main street, had completely wiped out one-third of Neak Luong and heavily damaged another third. Thatch and wood shacks occupied by 3,000 soldiers and marines and their families were wiped out. The marketplace was destroyed. Even two-story steel-reinforced concrete buildings were shattered...
...tunnels at Europa Center objects in glass cases surround one: rocks and jewels in a shop--crystal, metal, wood, leather, fur--objects which could possess all the properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give...
Refugees cram the city's once spacious environs, building their temporary houses of wood and palm leaves along the boulevards like so many hot-dog stands on the way to the Rose Bowl. But this is not a game. About 3,000 wives and children of the richer families have already fled to France and their European bank accounts. Yet Phnom-Penh is far from chaos. The Khmers do not panic easily...
...deposited half a million tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing bloom, mold growth and discoloration, flaking the surface of porous stone like puff pastry...
...crystal growth was caused by lime, or calcium carbonate, turning into calcium sulphate. It took a year to find an ammonia solution that would turn the crystals back into calcium carbonate again. Impregnating a postcard-size sheet of Japanese rice paper with the solution and backing the paper with wood pulp, Dini and an assistant pressed each little rice-paper block for five minutes on the surface of the fresco, then repeated the procedure with a second solution. It took two years to thus cover each square inch of the vast painting...