Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind it attempting to pass, when the truck drifted slowly to the left without signaling. The driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued onward. The driver of the Lincoln attempted to turn back . . . apparently to avoid a cement post, and the left front wheel of the vehicle dug into the sand, flipping the Lincoln on its top upon the highway...
...York's W. Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers. * Chiang is 66, Attlee 71. † The France of Louis XVI helped the 13 colonies win their independence; the French revolution came six years after the 13 colonies made peace, the Terror ten years after...
...like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces, broke fencing, ate the water-hugging groves of trees and stunted tamarisk, and sent the area back to desert. Silt choked the irrigation canals, sand jammed the thousands of storage cisterns, salt caked the wells. And on the Nabatean dew mounds, carefully constructed 2,000 years ago of millions of pebbles to catch and condense the desert morning dew and trickle it onto the seeded earth below, buzzards took up roost...
...welder and amateur archaeologist, spent a Sunday afternoon poking around the Scharbauer Ranch near Midland, Texas. In a "blowout" (a hollow scooped by wind), he found some Folsom points. When he returned a few days later, the wind had dug the hollow deeper. On the surface of the blowing sand were fragments that looked like broken human bones. Glasscock picked them up, but was wise enough not to dig without expert advice...
...more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal bones had come from a stratum of grey sand that lay considerably below the reddish sand containing the Folsom points...