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Word: sanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could they outlast the Ferraris? Gambling that they could not, Ferrari Team Manager Franco Lini ordered his drivers to hold back, bide their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark IV, Andretti barreled into a turn at 150 m.p.h., only to lose control of the car when his right front brake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: A Second for Ford | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

ROGER WILLIAMS: ROGER! (Kapp). There are times when Roger seems possessed of 20 trigger-happy fingers as he ripples through the Beatles' And I Love Her or the theme from The Sand Pebbles. His fluent, if florid, piano style embellishes a light-hearted Georgy Girl, ranges from stirring to tender on the theme from Black Orpheus, and rollicks through the Monkees' tune, I'm a Believer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 16, 1967 | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...through the Sinai Desert quickly became known as the blintzkrieg. It was led by the crack regiment known as the Bagel Lancers. When Israeli troops reached the Suez Canal, they grabbed the lox. At one point in the campaign, an Arab division spotted a lone Israeli sniper on a sand dune. The commander dispatched three men to get him. When they did not return, he sent a dozen. None of them came back. So he finally sent an entire company. Two hours later, one blood-splattered Egyptian soldier crawled back. "It was an ambush," he explained. "There were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BLINTZKRIEG | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...both Israel and Egypt had some 1,000 tanks each. The Israelis' were largely American and British; Nasser's were Russian, like most of his other equipment. Some 800 on each side squared off to battle for the Sinai Peninsula, a hell's amphitheater of ankle-deep, choking velvet sand broken by the ocher slag heaps of hills and occasional grey-green scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Quickest War | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...being what they are, he confidently expects to be sent to Congress in the next election in June 1968. After all, he says, he never should have been thrown out of the Assembly. "That wasn't dynamite on the desk," he insists. "It was just two tubes of sand, and I have a police affidavit to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador: The Dynamite Man | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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