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Word: sanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty gasp as its right horn slashed into the chest of Antonio Bienvenida, 38, dean of Spain's matadors. Twice, with a savage spasm of his lacerated but still powerful neck muscles, the bull tossed Bienvenida into the air. It was mauling Bienvenida, helpless on the sand, when the peones dashed up to cape the bull away. Instantly, Bienvenida's father and brother called on a husky, hawknosed six-footer, still dark-haired despite his 67 years: Dr. Luis Giménez Guinea, one of the world's most specialized surgeons, since 1940 official doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon of the Cornada | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...machines. Dried out by the desert, the travelers drank the oily water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Have Car, Will Travel | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Jimmy Dean sort of guy. And when you want to rebel you grow a beard, wear levis and cowboy boots, or smoke a pipe. But is this life? If one of these fellows with their picture-book notions ever met life face-to-face it would blow up his sand castle but good. They're even afraid of cracks in the sidewalk." He pulled out a cigarette, and someone had a lighter...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Just Passing Through | 5/20/1958 | See Source »

...Network picked up its only two runs in the ninth, when two CRIMSON players who had been loaned out to give WHRB a full team homered with the bases empty. Bob "Slugger" Sand and Joe "Long-Ball" Shepard did the power work for WHRB...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Crimson Crushes Fatigue WHRB Nine, 23-2 | 5/13/1958 | See Source »

Perhaps those left behind may prefer to spend an evening at one of the three House beach parties. Kirkland House is "featuring sand, surf, campfires and conviviality, cheer, and informal singing and guitar playing." Dunster will build "one large fire for those who do not wish to have their own somewhere on the great expanse of beach...

Author: By B.m. Ocallahan, | Title: Tea, Concert Highlight Spring Weekend | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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