Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only thing that can make you small is to have eternity in a grain of sand, you know. Some religions would say one can strive, but Zen would say even to strive is to miss the satori. The goal is being rather than becoming. This is again where I feel that the mystical movements are the most technologically sophisticated political movements now operating. They make everything in Herman Kahn and the Club of Rome seem incredibly naive...
...assault, which was dubbed "Operation Motorman," the British government airlifted three additional battalions into Ulster from West Germany, thereby increasing British troop strength in Northern Ireland to half the size of Britain's entire NATO force. Armored Saracen and Saladin vehicles, still painted the color of sand for desert duty, were landed by Royal Navy vessels. On the eve of the operation, Whitelaw warned the populace that "substantial activity by the security forces" was imminent, and advised Ulstermen to stay off the streets. At 4 o'clock the next morning, as a drizzling rain fell, the first armored...
...Indies Corp., the biggest (annual sales: $18 million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman's fortune is estimated to be $10 million...
...them concludes, "If I lived on a desert, I'd collect sand." The sad thing is that, psychically speaking, she does...
Each one consists of a sand-filled, depressed area with a signpost in the center to serve both as marker and target. On opening day, dog owners and dogs lined up to use the inaugural facility in Serzedelo Corréa Plaza, but the first sampler was a three-year-old boy who wriggled away from his mother and hit the post perfectly. Said his embarrassed mother: "He has always been somewhat mischievous." As for the dogs, most of them went about their business as usual...