Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yamani and other high government officials, and observed the Saudi Arabian land and lifestyle. "From 30,000 feet above," Prager says, "it seems somehow as if God must have been looking away when the land was created. But somewhere along the line He made up for the rocks and sand and blazing heat. Saudi Arabia has riches that few nations enjoy...
Derek Bok's statement to CHUL last Thursday represents a further move towards the restoration of ROTC at Harvard. Bok has reaffirmed that, despite CHUL's efforts to bury its head in the sand, the return of ROTC is indeed an "issue," one being seriously considered by the administration...
...Sand-colored five-ton Egyptian trucks with relief supplies from Cairo for the Third Army lumbered past Kilometer 101 into Israeli-held territory in the direction of the city of Suez. The drivers were U.N. noncommissioned officers. About ten miles north of Suez, a truck with cartons of food and cigarettes had arrived at U.N. observation post Kilo-a collection of whitewashed shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers...
...only reason Andrew Wyeth and other painters of Americana have ignored Steve is because they don't know he exists. He is a priceless relic of northern Massachusetts--an Ipswich clam digger who awakens before the sun rises and spends his early morning hours plunging his hands into sand and surf in search of hardshelled fish...
...three consecutive seasons in last place. But now Stengel was sitting in the stands. Not one but two teams were playing loosey-goosey, and both clubs were nominally the best in the land. Yet the Mets and the Oakland Athletics played the World Series as if it were a sand-lot scramble...