Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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marines and light equipment behind theoretical enemy lines. Some 100 Skyhawks and Phantoms flew protective cover as hundreds of amphibious craft lunged toward the yellow sand to discharge their troops. A giant causeway, assembled at sea, was towed ashore by launches. Aircraft even took off from portable aluminum runways laid down in the sand by Seabees...
...Palo Alto specimen probably died nonviolently, then its body sank to the ocean floor. A few shark teeth were found among the bones, suggesting that sharks may have had a few bites of paradoxia's plentiful flesh before a storm or flood covered the body with sand. Then sediment from the sierras covered it deeply, and a mountain range pushed upward between its grave and the ocean. At last big-brained primates, which had not evolved during its lifetime, brought it into the sunlight while searching for the secrets of infinitesimal matter...
...grows more appalling by the minute. Driven by the wind, by an invisible power in the sky, a river of sand flows endlessly over the rim of the pit. In a matter of days it would drown the house and anyone in it. So every night and all night long, while the wind lies still and the air is cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel...
...dark night, with the help of a rope he has woven and a grappling hook he has made, the man at last escapes from the pit. Free! In rapture he races aimlessly among the big black dunes. In horror he feels the sand give way beneath his feet. He has escaped from one pit only to fall into another-a pit of quicksand! "Help!" he screams. "Help!" His life is saved but his freedom is lost; the men who pull him out of the quicksand put him back in the pit. In blank hatred he stares at the sand...
Slowly hope is lost; suddenly grace is given. In the bottom of a barrel sunk in the sand, he finds several inches of clear water. Water in this blazing waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead...