Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betio is changed greatly. The tangled morass of coconut logs and bomb-pitted sand has been leveled. Orderly rows of tents have risen to shelter the marines, the sailors, the airmen and the Seabees who man this outpost...
...brought an unlooked-for diversion. Higher than bustard ever flew, the wings of a DC-3 soared up from the south, circled Hafar-el-Ats's cool palms, slid down the desert air, rolled to a dusty stop on the hot sand. Out stepped a group of Americans led by bouncing, balding Major General Ralph Royce, retiring U.S.A.A.F. chief in the Middle East, and his affable successor, Brigadier General Benjamin F. Giles...
...Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
Cross-Texture of Violence. There is the endlessly cautious, catlike approach that a few marines make, across the open sand, to a blasted revetment which may still hold Japanese life, American death. There is the attempt on the part of a few others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke...
Attention, M. Miller--we quote from a Baker encyclopaedia: "the Catta Pilosa, commonly referred to as the caterpillar, is one of the most clean of its species. Erroneously believed to be a lice carrier, the 'catta' actually feeds upon lice and sand fleas...