Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What purports to be a piece of dry sandpaper" used by Colgate-Palmolive to show that even sandpaper can be shaved with its Rapid Shave is actually a "mockup made of glass or Plexiglas to which sand has been applied...
...There were 29 football deaths last season, the highest since 1947's total of 30, reported Los Angeles State College's Dr. Floyd Eastwood in his annual survey last week. Of the 18 deaths resulting directly from injury on the fields, sand-lot football, rated the most dangerous, accounted for six. But seven died in high school practice or play, two in the semi-pro leagues, and three in college. Of the eleven deaths indirectly associated with football, four were attributed to heat exhaustion: three high school players and one college player (Charles Lohr of the University...
...results of the Ohio cleanup are slow but measurable. Bellevue's Manhattan Beach can already see half a mile of clean sand ready for next summer's swimmers, expects the slime to retreat about 1,000 ft. a year. Boating is booming on the Ohio and its branches as never before-and even water skiers dare to chance...
...soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time on a wide and sullen river...
CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...