plastic shavings

This snow is made of thin plastic shavings.

To make it snow continually, Mr. Meeh and an assistant built steel cylinders that are packed with the plastic shavings made by a Christmas display company in Chicago.

Missiles broke from Kearny's deck, fore and aft, in clouds of white smoke, and a shower of plastic shavings blasted from the protective covers of the Mark 4s.

Hobbico's 24 x 36-inch cutting mat ($30) not only absorbs knife marks with ease, but gets in the way of all the paint and plastic shavings that would otherwise be heading straight for the dining room table.

He holds up a jar of the plastic shavings that Smalley preserved when he carved roses into the plexiglass blocks, and recalls his grandfather saying, "There's no rose in there," indicating the image of the flower, and "the rose is in here," pointing to the shavings.