Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beach has seen scenes like the one capture by Peter Rappoli--three adults talking at the water's edge, the women in skirted bathing suits, men with just a little too much stomach hanging over the edge of their trunks, and the sky and the seemingly endless sand dwarfing them. This grouping of people contrasts sharply with the three twilight figures...
...lying next to a herd of tanned and blonded young Aryan demigods frolicking in the sun. When I looked around me I noticed a girl from Michigan State, coated with coconut oil, lying next to us and leering at me without speaking. I put my heard back in the sand and slept...
...linksters also played Sawgrass, a torturous macedoine of water, sand and jungle that terrorizes pros and duffers alike. Sawgrass is the site of the annual Tournament of Players Championship and perennially exacts the highest winning score on the pro tour...
...from all the hack carvings littering the steps of a hotel for white tourists..." And when Castle tucks Sam into bed, he thinks: "He looked more African than his mother, and the memory of a famine photograph came to Castle's mind--a small corpse spread-eagled on desert sand, watched by a vulture." It's as if, the triumph of liberation forces having made it impossible for Greene's characters to go to colonialism, Greene is now bringing colonialism home to his characters...
...debate went on, reports MacNeil, "I was struck by a the extraordinary range, for good and ill, of the talents and tempers of the Senators. On one hand, there were members who scarcely concealed their fears sand self-serving cravenness on this difficult vote. On the other hand, there were men of patience, understanding and quiet courage in both camps...