Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Americans have their heads in the sand in regard to civil defense [Aug. 25]. Rather, the terror and horror of thermonuclear attack is comprehensible to even the dullest imagination...
...golf seemed to suffer from the stares of newsmen, who can watch the first six holes from the clubhouse. Press Secretary James Hagerty smilingly asked reporters not to follow the games too closely, but the ninth hole, a par four right by the clubhouse, continued to be a psychological sand trap worse than the course's 130 real ones, a place for bogeys and double bogeys. Ike played six rounds in seven days, stayed in the gos most of the time, his strong long game suffered from a duffer's tendency to fail to follow through on some...
...fanned the spark was a wiry, 63-year-old Aussie track coach named Percy Cerutty. A physical-fitness fanatic, Cerutty got Elliott to develop his deep chest by lifting weights, harden his legs by such tricks as running through ankle-deep sand and sprinting up and down an 80-ft. sand dune 40 times a day or more. To give Elliott the energy to run 25 miles a day, Cerutty stoked him with oats, nuts and fruits. He urged his pupil to "thrust against pain and be contemptuous...
...play's theme: dishonesty toward oneself is the worst policy. The play's hero: Lord Claverton, an aged, retired Cabinet minister who idly fingers the empty pages of his once-crowded engagement book. Two unwelcome visitors from the past destroy the sand castle of his memories-precarious memories of what was essentially bogus success. Visitor No. 1 is a moneyed spiv from Central America who shared in a disreputable episode of Claverton's youth. Visitor No. 2 is Maisie Mont joy (now respectably renamed Mrs. Carghill), a onetime chorus girl whom the young Claverton seduced; in true...
Despite the subcommittee's stark warning, the U.S. Congress plainly intended to keep its head in the sand on civil defense: just two days after the House subcommittee issued its report, the Senate Appropriations Committee flatly turned down Civil Defense Boss Leo Hoegh's modest request for $13,150,000 to get a prototype shelter program started...