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...hard on the belly with an awful jar which would not stop. We slid across the sand. We who could, jumped out. The other survivors were handed down and we dragged them away. The plane burned slowly at first, and then fiercely. I do not remember too well. There wasn't any sound but those flames...
...breastplate, about six inches wide, carved in the 9th Century. Cut into the jade was the figure of a priest, or ruler, presiding over a circle of deities (see cut). To make it, the Mayan artist had labored with wooden bow drills, and smoothed his work down with abrasive sand. Carnegie Institution diggers found the breastplate and an assortment of gold-leaf ornaments, copper bells "and one alabaster vase amid the rotted bones in an ever-deepening series of graves...
...Jackson Snead had never forgotten his three most horrible minutes of golf, at Philadelphia's swanky Spring Mill course eight years ago. On the final hole, with golf's greatest prize-the U.S. Open -all but won, Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...
Like Bob Feller, Warren Spahn learned it from his father: the Spahns worked out on Buffalo's sand lots. He had barely made the Braves in 1942, when the Army took him. He came out of Europe with a wound ("just a scratch on the foot") and a first lieutenancy. Last year, in something more than half the season with the Braves, he won eight and lost five. This year he put together a string of eight wins before his two defeats...
...that the French postwar gas was too anemic to trust. Without Tilgenkamp, the Swiss balloon, manned by two assistants, struggled to a height of twelve feet and began to settle earthward. The crowd gasped. Like lightning the Swiss aeronauts jerked the strings on their sandbags. Amid a shower of sand the big orange ball went bounding over the treetops, to land 50 kilometers away. "Vive la Suisse!" cried the crowd. Then France's first entry, ample, blonde Mlle. Paulette Weber, sailed off alone, equipped only with ham sandwiches and a bottle of rum "to keep warm, in case...