Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan is a country that has little or no excuse for existence. A chunk torn from the desert, with boundaries traced on sand, it has no geographical unity, national identity, political history or economic viability. It was created by the British for the British: an armed camp at the crossroads of the world, a watchtower in the center of oil lands they ruled in all but fact...
...British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.'s ledger label for a pumping station in the Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan...
Chicago Daily News Critic Kenneth Shopen fumed: "Painting has given way to plastering, sewing and pasting . . . Fastened upon the canvas are such 'found objects' as cheesecloth, string, mud, sand, scraps of cardboard, fragments of mirrors, broken bottles and tennis shoes . . . Sculpture has given way to constructions where 'found objects' of junk yards are welded together in fantastic arrangements with droolings of solder . . . Work dealing with decay, destruction, fragmentation, explosions and torture are frequent. Apparently it is stylish to make a negative rather than an affirmative statement about life-and easier . . . Chicago is not that sick...
...fair. Hippy, sunburned females overran the tight, exacting course and went ahead with their game even when a gusty windstorm chilled the fairways. Male club members held their tongues, for the invaders were no chattering, once-a-week golfing housewives cluttering up the greens or excavating in the sand traps; they were the 25 top players of the Ladies' Professional Golfers Association. The la dies were winding up their winter's trek with the Titleholders championship, the "Masters tournament" of women's golf...
...Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...