Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the prospect of rearming Germany is painful to us, because to answer yes is cruel and to say no is unrealistic, can we beat about the bushes forever?" Mendes asked. His answer was proud and direct: "A great nation cannot bury its head in the sand when confronted by an unpleasant choice. It must face up, it must choose . . . We must have done with...
...dropped and poked deep into the ocean bottom. Compressed-air jacks will inch the barge up its caissons, out of reach of waves and stormy seas. Then the caissons will be pile-driven into the mud, cut off and welded flush with the deck, then covered with flooring. Sand or concrete will be poured into the caissons for added weight and strength...
...mystery epidemic struck down children in northern India with 118 deaths reported (24 in Delhi. 50 in Lucknow, others in Benares and Allahabad). Tentative diagnosis: encephalitis. An all-out spraying campaign was launched to destroy sand flies and mosquitoes, which are suspected of carrying the virus...
Neither adulation nor public office could keep Teddy from home. Whenever he could, he went back to the small fry, organizing games, obstacle races, camping and hunting expeditions and a wild slide down Cooper's Bluff, a steep, 200-ft. sand slope to a beach on the Sound. One reason the kids liked camping with him was explained by a delighted ten-year-old: "He never asked me to wash once...
...Sand Dunes & Sadism. Despite all the extraneous excitement, the riders still made a race of it. Starting in Amsterdam, eleven teams from six countries pedaled across the Belgian frontier into the rolling sand dunes of French Flanders. Whitecoifed peasant women and stolid fishermen stared as the cyclists swept by along the flat, lonely roads of Brittany. Driving squalls drenched them as they raced down the long Atlantic coastline. Of the no starters, less than 100 were still at the grind when they climbed toward the Pyrenees over the rugged shoulders of the Basque country. Cyclists and spectators agreed that Wermelinger...