Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfit was attached to Montgomery's Eighth Army. One day at El Alamein, Carmi was collecting debris left by Rommel's retreat when he came across a bulky, grey object. It proved to be a piano, encased in a rock-hard coating of plaster, its innards too sand-clogged to sound...
...people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...
Most kids on the narrow Nicetown streets played a form of stickball; not Roy Campanella. His big hands felt awk ward on a slim broomstick. He played honest sand-lot baseball with the Nicetown Colored Athletic Club or the Nicetown Giants. Soon he was good enough for American Legion ball with Loudenslager Post...
...ordinary air traveler winging across the U.S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand, dry lake beds and jagged rock mountains. But to the observant, a careful look reveals surprising signs of a new civilization rising among the ocotillos and greasewood. Thin asphalt ribbons stretch across the sand, linking black and white dots of clustered homes, blue bands of irrigation canals and rectangles of bright green new farms. From California's southern coastal ranges inland 375 miles to the central Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, the searing desert, long a shunned...
...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...