Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they flopped on their backs in the sand or flipped a hand gently at a volleyball, the ladies were prettily previewing the season's resort bathing suits (see color pages...
Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...
Residents of Anchorage, Alaska, saw a dramatic demonstration of that strange phenomenon during the disastrous 1964 earthquake, says Columbia University Geologist Paul Kerr, whose investigation is described in the current issue of Scientific American. While probing beneath the battered sand, gravel and silt surface of Anchorage during the past two summers, Kerr studied an underlying layer of quick clay from 10 to 30 ft. thick. During the three minutes of the quake's violent up-and-down jolting, he concluded, some of the quick clay under Anchorage turned into liquid, triggering the damaging landslides that literally floated large sections...
Logistics Bottleneck. The work is being done with impressive speed. Military insistence on standardization of buildings has helped, and so has the services' willingness to lend the companies idle equipment. Carving a jet field at Cam Ranh out of scrub and sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...
...ports and docks, long-awaited bulldozers, dump trucks or stone crushers are often delayed. To ease the bottleneck, the combine has set up an advance staging area at Poro Point on Luzon in the Philippines, is building three additional depots in Viet Nam. Except for such basics as rock, sand and gravel, most of the construction material must be shipped from the U.S. Though native lumber is abundantly available, for example, it is no longer used. Reason: heavy Viet Cong taxation on growers and suppliers has driven up the price for 1,000 board feet from $62 to $300 since...