Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...hates the country. He loathes . . . the swarming life of insects and the pullulation of plants. At most he tolerates the level sea, the unbroken desert sand, or the mineral coldness of Alpine peaks; but he feels at home only in cities. . . . He doesn't like raw vegetables or milk fresh from the cow or oysters on the half shell, but only cooked foods; and he always asks for preserved fruit instead of the natural product...
Sometimes the owl found the mouse, sometimes it didn't. By changing the strength of the light and observing tracks in the sand, Dr. Dice drew some pretty damaging conclusions...
...whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...alternatives and two alone are open to people who are willing to take their heads out of the sand, to newspapers who are willing to stop whistling in the dark and begin to talk. The first alternative is a genuine people's movement throughout the world which consists of a hearty refusal to back their governments in any program of "preparedness," be it window dressing like "peacetime conscription" or serious, scientific preparation to "push a button," together with an equally hearty demand that their respective governmental representatives meet promptly to write a world constitution...