Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, San Antonio, St. Louis, Carlisle,†etc. The general idea in redeployment camps: keep morale high with plenty of recreation, shows, liberal leaves, a taste of home in advance. Thus "Boston" has "Tremont Theater." At "Brooklyn" is a home plate from Ebbets Field, a bag of Coney Island sand...
...kicked the Navy out in December 1941. When the Navy came back in July 1944, it came prepared to settle down. Dredge boats plowed into Apra Harbor on Guam's west coast while the Japs were still resisting in the jungle-covered hills. Trucks moved mountains of coral sand to build a breakwater. Red-faced Seabees in green baseball caps, looking like goggled gods on their bulldozers, invaded the tropical paradise with noise and construction. By last week they had moved enough of Guam's earth to bury Tokyo's Imperial Palace, with all its moats...
...WEASEL IS BUILT AROUND A HULL. . . . IT TRAVELS THROUGH DEEP MUD, SNOW, SAND, ... UP & DOWN STEEP RIVER BANKS AND THROUGH DEEP WATER. LET'S GIVE THE JEEP THE CREDIT IT WELL DESERVES BUT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILD THE WEASEL ARE JUSTIFIABLY JEALOUS OF THE SINGULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THEIR OWN BABY...
...come to receive honorary Freedom of the City,* General Ike had heard such applause. In accordance with custom he had come through the old, battered City (London's financial district) in an open, horse-drawn landeau, and the crowds were waiting for him all along the sand-strewn streets...
...there was no stopping Sickles. When Isabella moved her "court" to Paris, Minister-to-Madrid Sickles moved there too, played host at her salon to Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gambetta and the French Monarchists. He decided that France, too, needed a king, and began to intrigue vigorously on behalf of his friend the Comte de Paris, whom he had met as a French observer in the Civil...