Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clay declared, "If we pursue the foreign policy we have set for ourselves. We must remain strong, conscious that our strength will be used to prevent, not to wage, war. We have learned our lesson in the last five years and we won't bury our heads in the sand of paper agreements again...
...often that a book can be judged by its cover, but in the case of Wait for Tomorrow the publishers have made it almost easy. In the right foreground, out of a Dali-type desert, rises a stack of 85 gold coins. A kingly crown lies in the sand nearby, and a derelict liquor bottle dribbles into oblivion. In the distance a ridge of bloody mounds bars the way to a paradisiacal grove of cloud-pink skyscrapers...
...days last week a pale yellow cloud rode a 70-mile gale across the southern Great Plains. In western Kansas, high-blowing sands blurred the sun and built ripply dunes along the east-west highways. In parts of Oklahoma the swirling dust cut visibility to half a mile. Winds in northern Texas sawed the sandy earth out from between dead cotton stocks, scooped fine topsoil from dry fields where winter wheat had failed to sprout because of long draught. Even in Dallas, 300 miles away, darkness came an hour early and sand sifted under windows and doors. Those who remembered...
...last January, the weary, ragged prospectors stopped where the Avequí River cuts over the mountain's edge. One of the men tossed a few shovels of river sand on his suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...
Other miners soon arrived-a couple, then thirty, then hundreds. By last week 1,300 men and 200 women were placermining on the Avequí, or in the Uriman, as the surrounding area is called. Diving deep to scoop up the sparkling sand, miners-male & female-wore few clothes or none. Diamonds were the one & only concern during the daylight hours...