Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made as comfortable as any small commercial aircraft. Two years ago, Sikorsky's dream-craft was an uncovered, bony collection of tubular steel and whirling props. Orthodox airmen eyed it askance as Sikorsky, with a too-small fedora perched sedately on his bald pate, dropped down into Connecticut sand pits and flew out again, or started to land on the hangar roof, skipped off it and landed on the apron in front...
...military idiots." said the Sweep. ". . . Cor sufferin' wars. Cor chase old auntie Rommel round the sand 'eaps...
...swinging their whole line north and westward to escape annihilation. General George S. Patton's soa-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Johnny Waters, led one armored force to Djebel Lessoude, rescued isolated infantrymen from destruction. By midweek thousands of Allied vehicles were rolling west over sand hills and cactus patches-trucks, tanks, jeeps, two-wheeled carts, the jackass baggage trains of tired French Zouaves and Senegalese...
Over Washington, gloomy under late winter skies, spread the deeper, greyer, more paralyzing gloom made by men. Grumpily, unhappily, but perforce, men faced the fact that the Administration's war agencies are still full of sand and emery dust, their borrowed time is fast running out, ahead lies another screaming crisis when all the wheels will grind to a stop and only a major repair job can get them started again...
...would be absolutely fatal," added the London Economist just before .the Casablanca conference, "if, for their heraldic emblem, the United Nations chose an ostrich dormant on a heap of sand...