Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) "This country," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, meaning Florida, "is not worth a damn."* Naturalist John James Audubon reported: "All that is not mud, mud, mud is sand, sand, sand." As of today, Sherman is wrong and Audubon is for the birds...
...diamond-bearing desert populated by Afrikaners, Bastards (mixed blood settlers from the old Cape Colony). Hottentots. Hereros and the largest colony of Germans ever to settle anywhere in the former German empire. The name of the capital's principal street is still Kaiserstrasse, and waiters in its sand-pitted beer parlors answer to the call of Herr Ober. For 35 years South West Africa (pop. 450,000). taken from Germany at Versailles and put under a League of Nations mandate, has been run by the Union of South Africa, whose Nationalist government has long wanted to throw...
When he ripped through the cloud cover at 8,000 ft., Smith realized that he had two alternatives, neither of them good. "I knew that I had no chance at all by bailing out," he says, "but I preferred this to getting washed away by sand on the bottom of the ocean...
When the girl's husband (Cameron Mitchell), a got-rich peckerhead, finds out about that hotel visit, he ravishes his wife, just to even the score. Next day behind a sand dune, Egan has a "soul-shaking experience" with the lady, but Mitchell is victorious in the end. He tells his wife that if she leaves him, she must also leave the old plantation. In the book the plantation was no more than a makeweight for the whole way of life it implied. In the picture it merely looks as if she loves her fun, but oh, that real...
Briggs Hall placed second ("Three more years of Harvard men/ The ratio's one to ten"). Saville House sand "If someone would do pre-med with me/ I'd learn anatomy/ Harvard has the cure for you," while Whitman complained that Harvard men ". . . would rather go to Wheaten/ To find girls who put the heat...