Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey Bogart has a new type of role with sand replacing Greenstreet as the inscrutable foe, and he show his appreciation of the change by turning in what is distinctly one of his best performances in recent years...
...When night came Bill Hippie of the A.P. and I dug a fox hole in the sand and tried to sleep...
...constant process of reconstruction and repair. Asphalt and concrete runways are practically unknown; most of the strips are paved with mud, hand-poured and bound with crushed rock. On a very few fields the Fourteenth has strips of the Chinese version of asphalt, made of tung oil, resin, sand and hand-chipped rock...
...without seeming bitter call your attention to a splendid little volume 'Sand A Memo...
...Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, tiny pin points of coral and sand, Admiral Spruance's Marines and soldiers fought Japs for whom there was no line of retreat. But ahead of the Americans there was a pregnant line of advance-to the Marshalls, to the Japs' great naval-and-air center at Truk...