Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week bungled his navigation by 45 miles: he mistook the lights of Boise City, Okla. (pop: 1,144) for his practice target. Aiming straight at the Baptist church and Forrest Bourk's garage, he loosed six practice bombs (each bomb: 4 lb. of powder, 96 lb. of sand and shell). The noise of the explosions roared through the sleeping town...
Toward Salamaua. At one minute past midnight, through high waves buffeting them across treacherous reefs, assault boats slid onto the sand along Nassau Bay, twelve miles below Salamaua. Hovering offshore in a choppy sea were the slim, nervous shapes of Navy PT boats. Whispering troops swarmed ashore. No Japs opposed them. Patrols fanned out to the north and south, feeling for the enemy...
...have as much fun as you used to when holes were shorter, golf was simpler, and you didn't live a subterranean existence in sand traps. And now you've got to give it all up because there are no men to rake out your footprints, or run the power mowers, or patch the elaborate tees, or manicure the target greens; and no gasoline for the machines if the men were available. . . . Silly...
...Sand and Cigarets. More satisfying, probably, to Ernie Pyle is the wide acclaim that has come to him. He gets thousands of fan letters from big and little people. The Charlotte, N.C. Civitan Club sent him a letter of appreciation and a bag of sand, after he had said facetiously in a column from sandy North Africa: "If somebody will just send me a little sackful of sand for Easter, everything will be wonderful." From admirers (members of the Indiana Legislature, the National Press Club in Washington, and just plain people) Pyle has received over $6,000 worth of cigarets...
...Infrared rays are now used to dry damp sand molds for castings, cutting drying time and freeing labor needed by the torch and charcoal method...