Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Especially annoying, according to Metcalf, was the pair of steps leading from the ground floor up the first flight of stairs. "We tried everything to make these two steps safe," he said; "we sand-papered them, marked them with black lines, flooded them with spotlights. But people still fell." Now, under the new setup, a ramp covered with the special cement material has been set in over the stairs. If unsatisfactory, it can be lifted out intact...
Very few seemed shocked, or even particularly surprised, by the President's plea for aid to Greece and Turkey (see The Presidency). But the national mood was one of resignation and apathy rather than enthusiasm. Muttered a Chicago commuter: "More sand down the rat hole." Said an ex-soldier, now a student at the University of Oklahoma: "Well, I told my wife to dust off my uniform...
...international oilmen who play the blue-chip game. The players must back their gambling spirit with refineries, tankers, filling stations - and millions in hard cash. In this blue-chip game, the jackpot is the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the string of tiny sheikdoms in the rolling sand dunes around the Persian Gulf - Bahrein, Kuwait and Qatar (pronounced gutter...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...
Ecuador. The Salinas air base has been turned over to Ecuador, with a few technicians on hand to keep sand out and the field in shape. At the Galapagos air base (four hours by air from the Panama Canal), a crew of U.S. technicians helps the Ecuadorians shoo the giant turtles off the two fine runways...