Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easterly atoll in the Pacific.* Its advantages: it has two good runways, 6,500 ft. and 5,000 ft. long, just 3,400 miles southwest of California; there is little population closer than Hawaii or Micronesia, 1,600 miles to the west; it contains about 200 sq. mi. of sand-covered coral, room enough for considerable equipment and accommodations for 2,000 men; its isolation affords hope of keeping some tests secret. The British conducted three nuclear test series there...
...mention the luminarias, of which we are very proud here in the Southwest. They are festive lights made, as you say, by sand-filled paper bags containing lighted candles. The tradition is that the luminarias guide the Christ Child to every home. The custom is Spanish, and it started when Spain had dominion over our Southwest. The use of luminarias at Christmastime is a custom followed all along the Rio Grande River, from Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, and also in Texas. Though it is not too important, I think that your readers...
...suburbs of El Paso and Austin, householders will set out liminarios-sand-weighted paper bags containing lighted candles. The street and house lights will be turned off, and families in unlighted cars will cruise through the streets slowly to see the familiar transformed. And in a million other homes in a thousand other places, the carols will ring and the Christmas trees will shine for the season of giving and the ineffable memory of warm, lighted places...
...pictures in a child's book should be doodled childishly. Arthur, the Dolphin Who Didn't See Venice, by John Malcolm Brinnin, illustrated by Andre François (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $2.95), is a cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully-minded toward the young, and can claim that no great harm is done-the child will not remember such books. But why protect the young...
...right surge is salted with military men, both active and retired. Those still on active duty can often command a captive audience. Thus, until his recent transfer to Pentagon duty, U.S. Navy Captain Kenneth J. Sanger, commanding officer of the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, was wont to require attendance at his dramatic platform demonstrations. On a mast labeled "Free Enterprise," he would hoist signs representing such virtues as "Loyalty," "Patriotism." and "Self-Reliance." Then he would pick up a stick called "Communism," take a hefty swing-and watch all the virtues come tumbling down...