Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...
Through the Nazi's solid wall of censorship word seeped last week to London that the strike kept on. And there were stories of sabotage. Fine sand, mixed somehow into lubricating oil, was scarring the bearings of Luxembourg's railroad engines. Railway signals misbehaved; the transport system went awry...
Beyond the purple morning shadows on the mountains the sun already beat so hard on the flinty sand and the gaping arroyos that newsmen and soldiers fresh from Fort Knox already felt blind and seared. But the men in the machines were veterans; they had met the sun and were equal...
...fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
Before his quarters at Camp Young, General Gillem has a private shower. But his lips are as cracked as those of his tankers, his face is as raw and weathered from the sand-laden wind, his uniform is a pair of overalls. Like his men, Gillem is maneuvering with one thought in mind...