Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union: "I give a warning. The writing is on the wall and the footprints are on the sand. The government has either got to help or else...
...Paris he had a change of heart. He came home again. He lived among fears that the Germans would snatch him for desertion, that the Resistance would sentence him for treason. On Liberation Day, Claude disappeared into the sand dunes along the Channel coast. Silent and morose, he lived in deserted German bunkers until the Resistance brought him to trial. He was acquitted...
...rugby week has its drawbacks. For one thing the teams must interrupt their revelries to compete just often enough to be permanently exhausted. For another, the coral sand on the rugby field is abrasive and causes painfully skinned knees when the players fall forward. They also fall backward...
Only four men entered the diving competition and Matthews Hall's Don Sand-berry won the dive contest. Mannheim came in second best...
...year (52,000) bet the most money of the year ($2,847,663) on the first big race of Doc Strub's rich Santa Anita winter season (TIME, Jan. 31). The track had been a quagmire much of the meeting, but sun and 1,000 tons of beach sand had finally dried it out. Most of the dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said Jockey Johnny Gilbert: "This colt is going...