Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile line between the Mediterranean and the wild, serrated Qattara Depression, the Germans had a fixed and deeply fortified front. Before and between their positions they had planted many thousands of land mines, barely covered by the sand, in wait for British tanks, artillery, trucks and troops. On the Eighth Army's side of the line, between the Germans and Alexandria, the British also had permanent fortifications and mines. Patrols from each side constantly wormed into the mine fields, cautiously uncovered the buried boxes of T.N.T., neutralized them with a twist of a screw and threw them aside...
...river bend. The trenches fed into concrete rifle and machine-gun emplacements, from which a screen of fire could be dropped on any attempted river crossing. Willkie's burly shoulders did not fit some of the narrow trenches, and his clothes were soon dirtied and stained with yellow sand. He paced three or four miles of trenches, winding up at an artillery observation post. Through telescopic sights he peered at a Japanese position where two lazy Japanese artillerymen stood in the mouth of their emplacement...
...Harvard men now seeing action with the American Field Service are leading no soft life, according to Roger C. Tyler '45, of Weston, Mass., who described the life of a volunteer as being one of "sand, syphilis, and flies...
...lives for the time being in a tent in the jungle with a neat little sand path running to the tents of the other fliers. His only amusements are bull sessions and an occasional hike to the tiny plantation store miles away. But he's fit as a fiddle-and all Navy. He wanted to know about everything at the office, who's writing what, how's everybody...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...