Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the President had seen his fill of surf and cloud, sun and sand, readied himself to fly home three days earlier than planned. So that no one would think stubborn Harry Truman was worried about the trouble over RFC or the bitter attacks in Congress, Press Secretary Joe Short pointedly announced that Margaret would be visiting Washington; the President was hurrying back home just to see her before she left to go back to New York...
...find the United States riding the tail end of the post-war boom and the beginning of the rearmament boom. Harry Truman is in his sixth year as President, and his Fair Deal has run down, run into the sand and disappeared. Liberal and progressive forces are in retreat. I found Americans who wondered whether it would be healthy for them to write what they really thought, whether associating with certain acquaintances might not get them into trouble. This was shocking. Undoubtedly just a temporary faltering of the American spirit. But nonetheless shocking...
...Independence would stand by to speed him back to Washington in case of an emergency, but, for a little while at least, Harry Truman had found a place in the sun. Said the President, planting his feet in the warm sand: "Well, I don't think anyone will want to go back...
Soon his flock must learn to trust a new shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
Captain Wray gave "dig in" orders shortly before dusk. His men scraped through wet sand and mud to frozen hardpan in which they hacked out foxholes...