Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the over-all length is about eight yards with a width of two yards. The contour interval is 20 feet, allowing accurate elevations on the model. Colonel Ware has used a ply-wood base which he has covered with special cloth. Lightly sprinkled over the cloth is sand and artificial grass which makes a puff or hole when an shell lands...
...German forts in Africa, which had traveled thousands of miles through sand and mud, over flats and up steeps, had now been cracked. So, in time, would the mobile and the fixed forts of Europe. That was the certainty which settled in the minds of men last week...
...remembered the lecture of an old combo: "Study the Binghi [aborigine], Oscar, and you'll find he's a different man from you in many ways, but in all ways quite as good." When six-year-old Nawnim, "hardened with food snatched from dogs and salted with sand and ants" was deserted by his father and delivered on Oscar's doorstep, howling and stinking, Uncle Oscar took...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, most metaphysical of aviators (Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; Flight to Arras), has written a fairy tale for grownups. The symbolism is delicate and tenuous. It challenges man the adult, and deplores the loss of the child...
...louder noise came. It was an artillery barrage-the heaviest since El Alamein. It concentrated on Djebel Roumana, and when it had walked back & forth across the hill for a couple of hours, British infantry rose up from the wild barley growing in the sand and stormed the height...