Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rock & Rule. The U.S., committed to helping preserve the independence of Middle East countries that ask its help, had shored up Lebanon and is now underwriting Jordan. This week the test of whether Arab nations can keep their independence-even such an impoverished sand kingdom as Jordan-is being put to the test. Less than three weeks after British troops left, the confident young King Hussein planned to take off for a three-week "convalescent leave" and vacation in Europe. The question was whether his nation would stay quiet in his absence, under tight police control inside and the counterbalancing...
Among colonies voting an overwhelming (75%) out for the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle was parched, sun-baked French Somaliland, an 8,000-square-mile East African land of dry gullies, thorny scrub and shifting sand, on the Gulf of Aden. The out vote was in effect a vote of no for the territory's chief native political leader, Mahmoud Harbi...
...Harlem River. Finally he managed to scrape together enough money to buy an old 42-ft. yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery color of rusting iron; Fog Horns (1929) is an abstraction of sound any sailor becalmed...
Monday-The second convoy arrives. Four U.S. destroyers hover three miles offshore. Two LSMs reach the beach and begin unloading. Suddenly, at 1:33 p.m., the beach erupts in geysers of sand and water. One LSM, loaded with ammunition, is hit and explodes. The other hastily backs off without unloading...
...after eleven holes. Coe confessed to being "mentally fatigued" and looked worn-out physically. But Charlie Coe has the stuff of a champ. Doggedly he put his swing back in joint, and poured on the pressure. By the 26th hole, the Georgia kid was three-putting greens, wallowing in sand-traps, ricocheting off trees. Coe eased his aching bones home to win, 5 and 4, by dropping a 25-ft. putt on the 32nd green. "I'm a lot tougher than most people think," said Champion Charlie...