Word: sanded
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Carter found the mummy encased in a series of coffins, with the mask, pictured at left, resting over the mummy's face. Today the mummy lies in a sand-filled wooden tray that Carter had built...
...Book, "is a way to more readily sell the movie to a global audience." But that global audience is us. Studios wouldn't spend so much money making and marketing these familiar products if we weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition...
...report of a stolen home plate led an officer to a baseball field in Allston. The officer found that, in addition to the theft, a few sand bags and a tarp had been dumped onto the field...
...straight descendent of those in the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864-1865, in which Union troops massacred my people, the Cheyenne. They severed body parts and cut the unborn babies from the women’s wombs and wore them as if they were medals of honor. Over the years, there have been so many plots to “kill the Indian and save the man.” And where does this leave us? In oppression, that’s where! And people wonder why we live the way we live...
...river on the slopes of the snowcapped volcano . . . accompanied by a series of slight quakes. Suddenly, out of the canyon wherein the Lagunilla River flows, an enormous and strange torrent of thick mud became dislodged at tremendous velocity. It dragged with it great blocks of snow, debris, trees and sand." According to Gmez's chronicle, the mudslide destroyed the town of Ambalema some 20 miles southeast of Armero, killing 1,000 people. The 1845 eruption also deposited some 250 million tons of lime on the plains surrounding Armero. The debris eventually decomposed into rich topsoil...