Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what Israel considers proof of a major Egyptian cease-fire violation. The colonel's evidence came in the form of a series of large, fuzzy aerial photographs. To the untrained eye, the photos looked like little more than a jumble of black scratches and splotches on the desert sand. But to the Israeli military command, the pictures demonstrated that the Soviets and Egyptians had violated the truce as soon as it began at 1 a.m. on Aug. 8 by continuing to move SAM-2 antiaircraft missiles into the cease-fire zone. The photos were poor in quality...
From Hoots to Groans. The Sunday pairings put Stockton head to head with Palmer, which is calculated to fluster any golfer. "Go get 'em, Arnie!" screamed the Army. "Shank it. Bury it in the sand," they hooted at Stockton. But then the hoots turned to groans...
Heads in the Sand. With so many incompatible systems in contention, moviemakers and many other potential suppliers of programs for video cassettes have so far avoided new production. Says Vice President Peter Guber of Columbia Pictures: "Most of the major studios are sticking their heads in the sand in hopes the cartridge will go away-just like their first reaction to television." Yet Guber insists that when "the cartridge revolution" strikes, the Hollywood work force, now 40% unemployed, will not only expand but scramble to make films in three shifts around the clock...
Michigan City, a lakeside resort east of the few Indiana sand dunes saved from industrial destruction, is one of those places where people say, "it could never happen here" no matter what the issue. The main street has a new mall. The police wear American flags over their right shirt pockets...
Tourist brochures fancifully refer to it as the "eighth continent," a palm-fringed paradise of emerald bays, gleaming beaches and sybaritic hotels. Just beyond the thin strips of sand, however, lies a very different West Indian world, one of discontent and outright anger...