Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About two months before Dday, Eisenhower and his top commanders were gathered in a room, beside a sand-table model of the target beaches. After the commanders had spoken in turn, piecing together the total picture of the operation, Winston Churchill stalked on to the platform, clutching his lapels. He said: "I have confidence in you, my commanders. The fate of the world is in your hands...
...Sand Hill, N.C., men apparently well from tropical diseases, acquired in an average of 18 months overseas, play a variant of ring-around-a-rosy - walloping each other with a loose boxing glove. There is a terrific din of shouting. Their six or eight hours of heavy exercise a day (pushups, pullups, hikes) seems to bring on relapse, thus winnowing out those who need more treatment. One man has had 22 relapses...
...unusual wedding of organic and inorganic chemistry. Organic plastics have poor resistance to heat and cold; at extreme temperatures they become brittle or soft. This fault is overcome in the silicones by replacing the carbon atoms in organic compounds with a much tougher combination of silicon (basic ingredient of sand) and oxygen. The result is a material combining the flexibility of plastics with great resistance to heat, water and air. Some silicones can withstand temperatures from 60 below zero Fahrenheit to 575 above...
...still keep the old snuffbox right up there where it's been for more than 80 years, with a fresh supply of snuff, though nobody ever dips into it. And there's a little silver box on each desk. What do you think is in that? Burnt sand that we're supposed to use when we sign our names in ink. Well, our legislative system is about as anachronistic...
...from his heart. Then he was almost killed by one of his own men who mistook him for a Jap. Just as the man was aiming, Jim Crowe raised his head feebly, identified himself by twirling his famed red mustache. Finally dragged back to a shell hole in the sand near the water, Jim Crowe was treated by a Navy-hospital corpsman. There a Jap mortar shell killed the kneeling corpsman; another fragment wounded a doctor who took the corpsman's place...