Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that the usual plaster casts might create sores and painful stiffness in the joints and make them useless for weeks...
...northern edge of Brussels, workmen in wooden shoes this week are ripping wooden forms from concrete columns, troweling plaster into place, and punctuating the din of hammering and riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates...
...Jose Suarez) is ardent and ashamed by turns, the girl at first stunned, then slowly filling up with happiness, as a cup fills with clear water. Days she wanders dreaming through the house, spreading out her clothes, lingering at mirrors. Nights, abjectly available, she clings to him like sticking plaster, tells him too much: the agony of waiting, of being 35 without...
Water leaking from the pipes of the sprinkler system caused some damage to the ceiling plaster of the main floor...
...that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...