Shower and shave.Washington's chin was dirty and that could have pockmarked pock·mark n. 1. A pitlike scar left on the skin by smallpox or another eruptive disease. 2. A small pit on a surface: The gophers left the lawn covered with pockmarks. tr.v. the president's complexion. Lichens were eating away at Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington. But help came from the across the ocean. A German company donated a free hot water pressure wash to clean up Mt. Rushmore; it started July S. Lichens are a fungus plus either algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that or bacteria that lets them survive where nothing else can, even on bare rock. The fungus grips the rock, and can even break it down, possibly increasing the projected decay rate of one inch for every 10,000 years. Technicians rappelled down the presidents' faces to do the job. The same German company has done similar work on the colonnades of the Vatican, the Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r and the
Statue of Liberty Statue of Libertygreat symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom . |
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