Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
...balls and the officers' shouts tore at the minds and feet of the men. They ran toward the trees, the sand humps, anything beyond the water which offered cover. Once there, they realized that in most places the enemy fire had been rather light. A soldier said: "I've been wounded. But there is so much blood, I can't tell exactly where." In the darkness, along a 45-mile stretch of the island shore, it was pretty much the same: confusion in the first moments, the slow adhesion of well-commanded troops, the first meetings with...
During the first full day ashore, the 1st landed all of its regiments. By morning it had some 40 artillery pieces and 15 antitank guns in position to fire. It had three tanks, but one had lost a tread in the sand. These weapons were not enough for what was to come. Only the bravery of the men and the fire of the warships offshore saved Gela and the landing...
Then came couriers with shattering news: Syracusae had fallen to the Romans, and in the sack a maddened legionary had run his sword through Archimedes, greatest of mathematicians,* as he did geometry in the sand...
Lawson sat in his pilot seat on the sand, under 15 ft. of water. His nerveless hands reached down, unbuckled the seat strap and his pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...