Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steep sand dune seven miles east of the Suez Canal, sun-blackened members of D Company, 52nd Israeli Armored Battalion squatted under a tank's camouflage netting listening to a radio. "Well, it's all over," said one at Tel Aviv's report of a cease-fire halting their Sinai blitz. "We should have finished Nasser off," said a second. "He's finished already," said a third tankist. "At last we've won a real victory and now we'll get a real peace...
...joint organization was set up and named Amilcar (after Hannibal's father). While diplomats attended London conferences and took appeals to the U.N., the British-French forces gathered on Cyprus. Tanks were painted sand-yellow, occupation currency was printed, plans were made for the requisitioning of civilian air transports. The target was Egypt; the plans at this stage had nothing to do with Israel...
...golden calf has been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer's eyes for almost twice as long as anybody else has ever dared to. He throws it very cleverly indeed. The dancing girls are numerous, nubile and explicitly photographed. Yul Brynner. as the Pharaoh, swaggering barelegged across the screen, will delight his millions of feminine admirers...
...which incorporates the whole range of past paintings, studio props and objects. His new central symbol is an anonymous bird. It is, like all Braque's subjects, the visual image of his outstanding qualities-taste and purity. "In the old days," Braque explains, "I used guitars, tables, carafes, sand and wallpaper to express what I had to say. Now it is the bird which helps me to explain myself." With a smile he adds, "I started on the ground, and now I am slowly moving up toward...
Bert Tallamy, 54, a civil engineer who spends his winter weekends snowshoeing in the mountains near his West Sand Lake, N.Y. home, has been building public projects ever since he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1925. He got his first job building sewers and water mains in Buffalo, soon after formed his own firm contracting for municipal water systems, dams and sewage-disposal projects in upstate New York. In 1945, when New York embarked on an $800 million public-works program. Governor Thomas E. Dewey asked him to become deputy superintendent of public works in charge of coordinating...