Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front along the eastern bank. Jets screeched overhead, and the eerie white tracks of ground-to-air missiles marked the bright autumn sky. Hundreds of M-60 Patton tanks moved through the golden dunes and barren hills of the Sinai, throwing up huge rooster tails of swirling sand...
...followed by the decisive blow to the head and heart. Second, no man in his right senses believes that if the massive thrust of Egyptian and Syrian tanks on October 6 were to have succeeded in its objects, they would have come to a halt on the sand near the '67 boundaries, stepped on the brakes with a loud, victorious screech and said, "Here we stop." What nonsense! The very massiveness of the forces engaged proves that in October 1973 they decided on a total assault on Israel...
...moments of light or dark humor, and the latest Mideast battle is no exception. In the sand near the canal, an Israeli tank-unit commander counted his vehicles at dawn and discovered that he had one too many. An Egyptian armored personnel carrier, lost in the desert night, had attached itself to the column. The Israelis destroyed it before the Egyptian crew discovered where they were...
...have too low an iron content for commercial mining and processing. Today the plant, producing 15% of the nation's iron ore, is a solid money-maker for its owners, Armco Steel Corp. and Republic Steel Corp. One reason for the profits: By dumping "tailings," or waste sand, into Lake Superior, the company saves some $25,000 a day over the costs of hauling them to disposal sites on land...
...father once said that if I were cast ashore on a desert island I'd organize the grains of sand," Mrs. Post told friends. With that same gift for organization, she prepared carefully for the future of her estates. Hillwood and its treasures have been willed to the Smithsonian Institution. Topridge will be used by seminars of C.W. Post College, while the Palm Beach property has been donated to the Federal Government for use by foreign dignitaries. None of the storied retreats will belong in the future to any single individual, which perhaps is just as well...