Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since worked himself ragged trying to rebuild the G.O.P. organization. "In 1954 it was like playing the New York Yankees with a sand-lot ball club," he says. "Now we've got the bare beginnings of a start...
Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
...beach of his own. To get the coral for a beach base, Kaiser dredged a lagoon (wangling the necessary permission, including an act of Congress). In the center of the lagoon, he placed a tiny island. When he surfaced off his beach with 30,000 cu. yds. of sand, Kaiser owned the widest beach in Waikiki, named it after Duke Kahanamoku, onetime Hawaiian swimming champ...
...fiercely protective attitude toward Brazil's mineral resources ("The oil is ours!"). Months ago this alliance of extremes, which stunts the country's economic growth by barring foreign capital from oil exploitation, began denouncing exports of radioactive material to the U.S. (thorium oxide and thorium-bearing monazite sand, no uranium). The showdown came last week, when the Security Council, loaded with nationalistic armed forces brass, adopted a military-dominated commission's recommendations that Brazil suspend exports of radioactive minerals and end the joint-exploration treaty with the U.S. President Kubitschek meekly gave the nationalistic generals their...
Died. Jackson Pollock, 44, bearded shock trooper of modern painting, who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint, sand and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them, named them with numbers, and became one of the art world's hottest sellers by 1949; at the wheel of his convertible in a side-road crackup near East Hampton...