Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes long decomposed that comforted through the nights of '41 and the sudden rush of heart at any glimpse of a light at sea. "You're mad," she whispers. "I'm randy," he smiles and snaps her garter again, boy-and-slingshot...
...special edition is in the traditional large LIFE size; it is 92 pages long and features more than 140 color photographs and 20,000 words of text. It depicts the history of Israel from its early days as an in hospitable stretch of sand on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean to its growth into one of the wealthiest, most militarily powerful nations in the Middle East. The issue examines the Israeli people and their lifestyles, their heritage and their hopes for the future. Assembled by a score of former LIFE staff members, it contains no advertising and sells...
...sand throated...
There are some genuinely funny moments: an ingenious auctioning of a political prisoner and a seminar in courting girls on the beach, with each of the five men strutting across the sand like roosters on a bed of burning coals. Although spirits remain high throughout, invention is nowhere near as consistent"Are you Marxists?" a guerrilla leader inquires of them, and their spokesman replies: "Yes-Groucho Marxists." If only they were...
After each shot, the projected image changes to show the computer's notion of where the ball would have landed. The machine also flashes the yardage gained and the remaining distance to the pin. If the computer decides that the ball has landed in a sand trap or water hazard, there is a one-stroke penalty. Putting, however, is primitive: the player must move to an Astroturf green and aim at a real hole...