Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds time to tutor his children, spar with a host of enemy pundits, work for twelve hours at a stretch if he has to. At the moment, Graves has on hand three projects, any one of which would be enough to tax the average writer: a novel about George Sand's love affair with Chopin; a translation of Lucan's History of the Civil War (between Caesar and Pompey): a translation of Roman Historian Suetonius' Twelve Caesars...
Tennis enthusiasts filled the lawn courts, and the golfers roamed from sand traps to the 19th hole. Many, of course, were content to wander about, shake hands, indulge, and just look. Every convenience was available to insure all such activities. The police, for example, cheerfully filled in at the softball game when players took brief dashes to the lobster tables...
...hibernate, their flesh is full of small, hard particles of lime that make them less desirable in the eyes of gourmets. The lime is a reserve for building the winter door, so when a snail is dug from his refuge, his flesh is in top condition, free of shelly sand...
...only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That Sarasota sand overhead. I've had a stiff neck for 13 years...
Springfield College collected nine hits and four runs off Boston College's fastballer Ed Buckley last night to edge the Eagles, 4 to 3, in the District One NCAA baseball playoffs. Springfield pitcher Jack Sand gained his seventh win in eight starts. Holy Cross and the Univ. of Mass. are the other teams in the playoffs...