Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifles for rice. The Little Tiger struggled for discipline. Demoralized troops were moved out of the towns into the countryside, paid in silver dollars (for a change), reorganized and re-equipped. Hsueh now has 160,000 men of varying fitness. His best units are digging in along the white sand beaches of Hainan's northern coast...
...Thursday, Jan 12, the little (643-ton) Swedish motor tanker Divina was plowing out of the Thames estuary, four miles from shore, between Red Sand Tower and the Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers...
...pictures were mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
...inside it, while other prisoners carried it outdoors and set it up in front of a guard box. Almost every afternoon for the next four months the P.O.W.s vaulted tirelessly while Peter and John took turns burrowing away with a trowel at their ever-lengthening tunnel. The loose sand was packed into bags made from trouser legs. The bags were hung inside the wooden horse while the men were digging; later the sand was scattered in latrines, tomato patches, or under the prisoners' huts. Each time the diggers meticulously smoothed the original topsoil over the tunnel entrance...
...Philadelphia Athletics' indestructible Connie Mack admitted at 87, for the first time, that he might conceivably be getting along in years: "I was reading in the paper the other day about the Sand birthday of Pudge Heffelfinger [Yale's all-America football star of 1889-91] . . . When the newspapers start printing news of Pudge Heffelfinger's 82nd birthday, I must be growing...