Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...
...covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...
...picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...Time For Love" is a little ditty about a professional photographer (Miss Colbert) who switches from pictures along the aesthetic line to the kind that satisfy the beast in us. The cause of the transition is a brawny sand-hog (Mac-Murray--and the muscles are real) whom Miss Colbert stumbles into underneath a river so help me. From there on things happen in a fast, furious, and funny...
...result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...