Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to pop under its wheels. Directly in front of it a red lantern bobbed madly up & down. A few hundred feet farther on the two red tail lamps of motionless No. 8 glared in the darkness. Engineer King shut off steam, slammed on his brakes, let go the sand. He did not throw his reverse lever because he knew he did not have time to make it work. He closed his eyes as his locomotive's snout struck the rear coach, buried itself eight feet inside. The two steel cars jounced forward thunderously, crunched the wooden...
...muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople were huddled in strong structures on the sand bluffs back of Corpus Christi, waiting. Suddenly the black clouds parted, the moon shone through, the rain ceased. There was an ominous silence. Moonlight lay yellow on the rain-soaked trees, rippled and rolled over the cotton fields like a saffron wave as the wind veered and puffed unsteadily. Then...
...Eastern Shore of Maryland bore the full brunt of the storm. The waves washed clean through Ocean City to the inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic...
Adolf Hitler's electioneering bark that when he became Dictator "Heads will roll in the sand!" ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...
...long, hot years the Foreign Legion and native troops have shuffled over the sand waves and stony wastes of the Moroccan Desert in "the war that never ends." The French War Ministry has steadily issued dispatches calling it "a campaign of pacification," noting "resistance of rebellious tribesmen." Actually fierce, Berber horsemen have been fighting a costly war of thrust and ambush, much like the Indian wars of the western U. S. last century. The Berbers are a white race occasionally producing a blue-eyed blond. Unlike the Arabs who once conquered them, they are honest and straightforward. Their active, often...