Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
Died. Otis William Caldwell, 77, retired education expert (at the University of Chicago and Columbia's Teachers College), author of science and biology textbooks in which he entertainingly debunked old saws (i.e., ostriches hide by burying their heads in the sand; a snake's tail never dies until sundown); in New Milford, Conn...
...George Tabori, whose Companions of the Left Hand was one of last year's most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original...
...their music is trying to say. An exception was redhaired, articulate Hector Berlioz. He had been commissioned by the ministers of Louis-Philippe, the citizen-king, to commemorate the 1830 Revolution's tenth anniversary with a symphony. It was a proud era for France. Chopin, Liszt and George Sand reigned in the salons. Berlioz set out to do justice...
...lying alongside a shipmate, picked himself up and found that the odds had narrowed once more. "I got out of the hole. The man was lying just outside. He moaned horribly and he clutched at the ground with his ringers and rubbed his face back and forth across the sand. A great hole almost the size of a man's head opened below his belt. ... I noticed that his canteen was gone from one of his carriers but the cup was still there and . . . was half filled with blood...