Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mostly there was sand, and the dust of the sand, and the heat crawling night, and dirty clothes. There was a lot of artillery and a lot of digging and crawling, and a lot of training that was designed for and that they know readied them for, combat duty
...swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...
...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...
...believable. More than that-it often approximates hard and honest facts about war and about people. In the routine war melodrama it is always an American prisoner who, faint with thirst, scornfully refuses to yield information while an enemy officer drinks his fill and tosses the surplus into the sand. Here, the situation is reversed. Sahara rings dozens of such changes on old formulas, and in their simple way they make more hard sense pictorially than most documentaries...
...road the steel mesh, laid on the roadbed, is filled with sand and pebbles and coated with road oil. It costs more than a concrete surface, but its builders, Irving Subway Grating Co., claim that it can be laid much faster, is easier to maintain, may prevent road washouts. Biggest expected advantage: better protection against skidding. This has already been proved on at least 200 U.S. bridges with steel decks: a Seattle bridge that used to be very dangerous in wet weather has not had an accident in the ten years since a steel surface was installed...