Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assistant County Prosecutor John J. Mahon, who has sent more people to the electric chair than any other prosecutor in Ohio, has tried to make his case with technical detail: drops of blood, grains of sand, eight strands of hair and other minutiae which demonstrated that Sam Sheppard could have committed the murder. The defense will call more than a score of witnesses in an effort to indicate that...
...going to be rough and make good soldiers out of them." When Alabama Private Jesse Wyatt picked up a club in a scuffle with Negro Sergeant Hayward Walker, Lieut. Anderson ordered Wyatt strung up by his heels. When two of the men were dirty, the lieutenant ordered public sand baths. When a 24-year-old law-school graduate who had taken one of the sand baths fell exhausted after doing pushups, Lieut. Anderson ordered him covered with dirt and a cross placed in his mouth. "If he wanted to act like he was dead, I wanted to let him look...
...skull fragments were carefully fitted together; they were tested for fluorine, which generally increases with age. Then, diggers financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation camped by the site to study its dusty geology. By tracing the various layers of red, grey, and white sand, they established that the skull belonged to an individual, most likely a young woman, who lived more than 10,000 years ago. She is almost certainly the oldest American whose bones have been found. This conclusion was backed by the fluorine tests and by the bones of extinct animals found in the sand with the skull...
...preview of Humpty Dumpty or that even greater exponent of waywardness, Father William. But where Carroll's Humpty crashed to his fate in magnificent indifference and Father William went right on standing on his head, the Headstrong Man is easily brought to earth with a thrown handful of sand and a thoroughly sententious Victorian moral...
...headstrong men will stand like me, Nor yield to good advice, All that they can expect will be, To get sand in their eyes...