Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clams move by pushing their fleshy protuberance or "foot" into the sand, swelling out the tip so that it acts as an anchor, pulling itself after, repeating the process. Fresh-water hydras (primitive digesting stalks with predatory tentacles at the top) sometimes move by "somersaulting"-bending over, attaching their tentacles to the bottom, flipping over...
...mains. What went on at an abandoned farmhouse outside Fayetteville, N. C. last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with...
...years, while his companions were out in the breakers diving for pennies and old shoes, Kialakihooey practiced skiing on the slopes of Waikiki's sand dunes with a pair of skis he carved out of an old hollow log. "I never was like other boys," he mused dreamily...
...Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...
When last September's hurricane devastated 50 miles of Fire Island, New York's Park Commissioner Robert Moses issued an ominous warning: unless the long strip of beach and sand dunes which now protects Long Island from the sea were turned over to him, the next big blow would destroy it (TIME, Oct. 17). The cost of making Mr. Moses' promised land of boulevard-parkway and State parks was $15,500,000 of which Suffolk County must pay a little over two-thirds...