Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaza Strip is a geographic absurdity-an ownerless, 5-by-25-mile enclave of sand, hate and history (Samson pulled down the temple in Gaza), jutting from the world's most troubled frontier. The last surviving bit of the old British Palestinian mandate, this narrow ribbon of primitive coastal land was administered from 1949 until last fall by the Egyptians, who kept lackadaisical order among its 90,000 poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Arab natives, and left to the U.N. relief agency the care and feeding of the 219,000 Palestinian refugees huddled there since the 1949 armistice...
...Wind, Sand & Bars. In Pearland, Texas, Almond Perkins drew a $29.50 fine for drunkenness after he piloted his 1950 Ford onto the Cloverleaf Airport runway, roared up and down at 70 m.p.h. for an hour, complained to a sheriff's deputy who finally cornered him that the car would not take off-"no matter how fast I taxied...
Equipped with bulldozers and trucks, a contingent of U.S. G.I.s late in 1952 began to rearrange the sand dunes of Uchinada, a small (pop. 5,953) fishing village 200 miles west of Tokyo. The U.S. Army had taken over about four square miles of Uchinada's sand and ocean as a firing range on which to test the Japanese-made artillery ammunition that it was buying in million-dollar lots. Before long, 105-mm. and 155-mm. shells were whooshing over Uchinada's beaches...
...corvée (impressment of workers), but when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and baskets, the work went on faster than before with free labor and the rapid development of steam-powered excavators. De Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals-including the Saint-Simonian Socialists-tried to take the canal away from De Lesseps. In London successive British governments first derided the idea, then worked to block construction of the canal, then...
...years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs, armed with polished muzzle loaders and supported by cavalry and authentic 19th century cannon, stood...