Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circumstances were unfortunate, all right. Until the last minute, neither the navigator nor the operations officer had sounded a warning as the Mo steamed on toward the sand flats at 15 knots, 10 to 15 degrees off course, past plain landmarks ashore. No one had asked the Fathometer operator for a sounding; the radar plotter had never sent his shoalwater reports to the bridge. When the executive officer tried to send a message from the main navigation bridge four decks below, the enlisted "talker" was unable to find anyone to listen...
McInnis later stated his policy of ever looking no candidates who turn out for his teams. He called to mind how the great Walter Johnson had nearly been passed up by big league scouts because he was an obscure sand-letter...
From the training camp, troops graduate to the volcanic black sand beaches not far away. There, facing the mainland, they build concrete pillboxes, string barbed wire, drill endlessly to repel the invasion from the sea. In their off-duty hours, the soldiers sing a new army song...
...derrick, got an ancient, 3,000-ft. East Texas drilling rig and a leaking secondhand boiler and boldly set out to sink a 6,000-ft. hole in Hardin County. He drafted his father as a tool pusher, his younger brother William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink a hole which...
Along the 30-mile jungle track from the airfield to 300-year-old Paramaribo, he was hailed by ragged Negroes, Indians, white-scarved East Indians, stolid Dutch farmers and Javanese women in bright-colored, close-fitting sarongs. In the steaming riverbank capital, workers had poured sand into the biggest puddles in the unpaved streets. Dutch flags and orange banners hung from the front of the green-shuttered, two-story wood Parliament building. As Bernhard drove up, a band played the Dutch anthem, then broke into Surinam's own anthem, outlawed until The Hague granted the colony self-government last...