Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirring does not mention the difficulties of manufacturing and spreading the poison. He only suggests that it be mixed with powdered sand. This "death sand" (containing .05% of radioactive material) would be applied at a rate of 12 milligrams (1/2500 oz.) per square meter and would be entirely invisible. Less than a ton of death sand, evenly distributed, would make Manhattan a deathtrap...
...weeks ago he had proposed a deal whereby U.N. would seat the Chinese Communist delegates; the Russians, in return, would come back to the Security Council table and "discuss" the question of how to stop the Korean war. Joseph Stalin, as cagey a bull as ever pawed the sand, eagerly endorsed the Pandit's proposal. Last week, in talks with British Ambassador Sir David Kelly, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in effect suggested the same deal...
...Army divisions, two Marine (all under-strength). Three of them -the Sand Airborne and the 1st and 2nd Marines-are well-trained and well-equipped...
...your heels in the sand-hard-to make them smooth...
...Bump's special favorites is the sand grouse, which nests as much as 25 miles from water. It lives on desert seeds and commutes every day to the nearest waterhole. In some still unknown way it brings water back to its grounded young. Dr. Bump hopes that the sand grouse can colonize U.S. bird pastures that are too far from water for any U.S. game bird...