Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Los Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
...over Army might well be termed an upset, for the Crimson was by far the greener team. Wet outdoor, courts forced play onto the hockey rink's cement courts, and after a bad start the Crimson rallied to win most of the late sets...
Here, four years ago, the 9th Armored Division of the U.S. First Army crossed the Rhine. The U.S. Army left few marks on Remagen. It left the name "Texas Roy," splashed in green paint across a wall by the Rhine, and a tiny "USA" scratched into the cement of an apartment building. It left the bodies of several American soldiers, which were recovered from beneath the collapsed Ludendorff bridge a few weeks ago. I could not find anything else the U.S. had left behind. Certainly it did not leave democracy...
...deserted," said an Israeli captain. "There wasn't even a stray cat here. We didn't consider these Arab villages fit places for our people to live, but we had to have some place to put them." First the government sent workmen to spray Akir with DDT. Cement was poured over the earthen floors; boards or tin roofs replaced Arab thatching. Water pipes were laid between the courtyards...
This caused some controversy between them. But eventually they bundled Janet's body up in a trunk, carted it to a rented house in suburban Queens, and buried her in cement in the basement. A few days later they turned up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and after suitable preliminaries, moved in with a new prospect-a pretty, 31-year-old widow named Deliphene Downing...