Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rico, returned to the U.S. temporarily for a weapons refresher-training course. At the end of the course he got leave, proceeded to put into action a plan that would wipe clean all his debts. French went to Washington, on April 5 took a late-evening stroll past the sand brick Russian Embassy on 16th Street. At the embassy he paused, tossed through the fence a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern." For $27,500, said the letter, "I believe I can furnish you with valuable military information." The information French volunteered to hand over: documents and diagrams...
...also twelve, was smothered to death in 1953 by a sand cave-in at Nantucket...
Next spring the first major satellite to rise will carry instruments to study the sun's ultraviolet rays; the second will record the erosion of meteor particles the size of sand grains; the third, only 13 in. in diameter, will be made of plastic (instead of magnesium), will measure air density and the earth's magnetic field. Jobs for the other three satellites have not yet been picked...
...Sand Springs, Okla...
...roughnecks, rock hounds and pebble puppies sweating in the 130° heat at Hassi Messaoud. Not for pay alone, which averages $400 a month, but from a patriotic spirit of excitement, the 83 Frenchmen (average age, 25) faced the needling, bone-dry winds and the oven-hot, reddish-yellow sand of the vast desert. Working peacefully shoulder to shoulder with them were 134 Algerian Berbers...