Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend golfers (the number was chosen "for patriotic reasons") called "the Golfing Friends of the President." They spent $75,000-in cash and donated materials-for the links, and published a brochure that uses poetry to describe the course's splendors. It has one artificial water hazard, two sand traps, and springhole cups that pop a ball out after it is sunk...
...Norm brought all that contemporary political stuff in. I mean, we all know the story's happening in Israel. So it's really a mind blower to see those Phantom jets roaring up in the sky, and Judas coming up over a sand dune between a couple of tanks. That's heavyweight...
Water wells are miles apart. Under the blistering sun, the temperature of the sand often reaches 180° F. Despite these forbidding conditions, foreigners have lately been scurrying in and out of the West African republic of Mauritania, at the western end of the Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell...
...race-2:26%, which is also the track record at Belmont Park, set by Gallant Man in 1957. The Belmont track is extremely fast this year for some reason -possibly because of the unusually heavy spring rains that have packed the surface, possibly because of the particular combination of sand and loam and clay that is being used...
Muses Economy Minister Pham Kim Ngoc: "Jumbo jets carry charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...