Word: cocooning
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were broken. In Weymouth, Mass, an automobile rolled...