Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, on the lovely beach at the fashionable resort of Guincho, near Lisbon, a fisherman's dog dug into the sand, uncovered a shallow grave in which lay the body of a man. He had been shot in the back of the head and through the heart, was dressed in a sweater, grey trousers and black shoes-placed on the wrong feet. The dead man was identified as Captain Jose Santos...
They killed him from behind, not in front. Sand dunes, storms and rain covered tip the act; The newspapers and the police covered up the rest...
...much to start with. Mauritania is a land of sand twice the size of France sprawled across the lower Sahara on Africa's Atlantic hump. Its 620,000 people are divided between nomadic Moslem herdsmen in the north and farming Negroes in the south. Both Morocco and the Mali Federation have loudly claimed all or parts of it. But Mauritania has one major asset: a jagged black mountain, 1,500 ft. high and 20 miles long, containing iron deposits estimated at 150 million tons. With the World Bank loan, a mining company called MIFERMA, controlled...
...Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...
...Royal Navy, young Harris ran away from school at 15, having made a name for himself by hitting the class bully with a cricket ball-which was (and is) not considered cricket in an English school. Harris made his way to America, became a shoeshine boy and sand hog in New York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer of sorts. He served as correspondent for several U.S. papers during the Russo-Turkish war-covering the hostilities from a brothel in Odessa...