Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier Hollywood days, stars gathered at the Victor Hugo at 12:10 p.m. every day for the house specialty: sand-dabs...
...bloody beaches a staff officer told Alexander: "The situation is catastrophic." "Sorry," said Alexander, "I don't understand such big words." He then squatted on the beach and built a sand castle. He was the last man in his command to leave Dunkirk...
With General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lieut. General Sir Allan Moreshead, Australian Commander, Churchill saw the white of El Alamein sand dunes against the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean. Bronzed South Africans, stripped to the waist, were laying mines. One South African said he came from Pretoria. "I was there," said Churchill, "before you were born." (As a captured war correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Boer...
...Standard's oft-mentioned preoccupation with the almighty dollar did not prevent destruction of $50,000,000 worth of wells and equipment when the Japs surged into Sumatra. Said Farish: "The case which the witnesses attempted to build is a jerry-built house. And the foundation of sand on which the whole thing rests is the assumption that the executives of our company have forgotten that the life-long policy of every American is first, last and always to put almighty America above the almighty dollar...
...Dynamiting is quickest, most tricky. A properly placed charge will warp, rip and twist the steel casing, letting in water and sand. Improperly placed, the charge will waste its strength by blowing up and down the well shaft...