Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road to Morocco. In spite of all the trimmings and the press of the unregimented crowd, most of the contestants turned in some flashy golf. Hope, teamed with burly Pro Mike Souchak, couldn't hit his hat and got lost in Cypress Point's tricky sand traps (on one hole a photographer ground his golf ball into the sand to make things a little tougher for picture purposes). He and Souchak failed to qualify for the final round. "I'm going snow-blind from sand," said Hope. "This is like The Road to Morocco...
...Knowing that many cases of apparent blindness are relieved by a shock, Griffin explained: "There was no bump, no jar. Nothing had happened. Suddenly everything looked like red sand in front of my eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...
...Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair sand-matted, some fingernails broken, face cut and bruised, two caps missing from her front teeth. After Marie, heavily shrouded and eerily resembling a Picasso portrait, had left a hospital with her current flame, Cinemactor Michael Wilding, the cops themselves were arguing about the evidence. Why had Marie's captors foolishly...
...discovery goes back to 1921, when some British soldiers, digging in during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...
...most controversial incidents in Colorado's robust past was the Massacre at Sand Creek in 1864, when the U.S. cavalry efficiently wiped out up to 800 unsuspecting Cheyenne men, women and children. The Cheyennes under Chief Black Kettle had camped at Sand Creek, near Fort Lyon, Colo., under a friendly officer's promise of protection. But the regional cavalry commander, Colonel J.M. Chivington, was a man dedicated to eradicating Indians, and his order to the troops was "Kill all, little and big." Chivington's raiders took no prisoners and carried 100 Indian scalps back to show...