Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers only in minor jobs. Blackouts were almost perfect. Mr. Rossi, who sells flowers on the side, doused his shop's electric sign, which had been left to glisten through a previous blackout. Sirens, at first inaudible above the traffic, were more ear-piercing. San Franciscans had sand in their homes, were ready to fight incendiaries...
Wave upon wave, coming in from the horizon, building up great mountains of water, building, coming, gathering, water and foam and sea power--then breaking against hard rock and warm sand, slapping with resounding boom, and washing back to the horizon again...
...wave gathered its water and broke upon the warm dry sand, and is now returning to the narrow crease between sea and sky. A new wave is beginning to gather. In time, that will crash and recede, making way for another. That is the life and the power...
...Agents which disperse cement more efficiently through sand, gravel, water...
Invasion. There came a day when, in the finest symbolic moment in the book, Ling Sao, cleaning a rice cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs from the East Ocean, who always like to fight." On a later day, high and small in the sunlight as daylit stars, the first "flying ships" came over, to their admiration, dropping silver eggs which made the earth stand up like black trees. From his son-in-law Wu Lien...