Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heels of the first two waves, our LSU hit the deep sand at water's edge, shuddered slightly, then grated securely on the shore...
Wing & a Prayer. In Pŏ;rto Alegre, Brazil, aeronautics inspectors grounded Pilot Sebastiao Afonso Corbeta when they learned that 1) he had been landing his plane at night on a pitch-dark 100-yard strip, 2) his carburetor was full of sand, 3) his tires were patched with cut-up inner tubes, 4) he had no pilot's license...
Ricardo and the Professor are looking for the murderer of a young "B-girl," (whatever that is) whose skeleton is discovered in a sand dune on Cape Cod. Their efforts are complicated by Elsa Lanchester, who plays the girl's unscrupulous land-lady, a character reminiscent of a malefactroy Mad-woman of Chaillot...
...bridgehead in two. Great swarms of Reds began trying to get back across the river by any possible means: on rafts, over the girders of demolished bridges, by wading, by swimming. The angry U.S. planes followed them; the invaders died by hundreds in the green water and on gleaming sand spits. At least 1,500 enemy dead were counted and 800 prisoners were taken. General MacArthur announced that the Changnyong bridgehead was completely liquidated except for a few pockets which were being easily mopped...
...which most demands of social intercourse can be met by an ability to tune a television set, Miss Carlyle's methods might seem eminently sound. "The strawberries in the field, the blueberries on the bush, the clams in the sand, the fish in the sea will remain where they are unless you go out and pick them," said Miss Carlyle...