Word: sand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ventures depend on an Egypt at peace-a hopeful portent for the negotiations with Israel. Aristotle Onassis flew into Cairo last week to check the possibilities of pumping oil through a proposed $250 million pipeline from the Gulf of Suez to Alexandria. Since the line would cross stretches of sand now dotted by Soviet missiles, Onassis said that he would return in six weeks, when the Jarring talks should be in better focus. The Suez Canal Co. has ordered a $2,400,000 Dutch dredger that could deepen the canal for 250,000-ton supertankers whenever it is reopened. Egypt...
...daybreak the entire town of Kilgarry, priest included, turns up on the beach to help the gallant militants gather guns and dynamite. It is the very picture of a spontaneous uprising-capped, when O'Leary's truck sticks in the sand, by the masses putting their shoulder to the wheel and impelling the Leninist vanguard onward. One must, after all, come from the people as well as go to them. This vanguard, unluckily, makes it only as far as the top of the hill, where it is met by the major with a full complement of rifles and mortars...
...Occasionally, Sachs writes brief, epigram-like statements of a few lines, none of which seem to succeed very well. One such is "Iich sah eine Stelle," which the translators render, transposing the first two lines, as "I found a hat a man had worn/Saw where a stove had stood/What sand, O my beloved, /Knows of your blood?" Neither the English nor the German is very memorable, no matter how deeply felt...
...only comment from Buildings and Grounds came from a foreman who said that "tons and tons of sand and salt have been spread. We're trying to keep after it but it's hard because the ice keeps melting and refreezing...
...along much of the border. We began at Mount Hermon, the snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...