Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people were surprised recently to read in the "In Memoriam" columns of the august London Times this notice: "At Battle Bosworth August 22, 1485, there fell, fighting bravely, Richard III of England. King. Statesman. Soldier. Gentleman. Deeply mourned. 'From distant shores, pale dusty ghost. One grain of sand salutes your memory...
Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
...fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills for a poisonous anemone, luring other fish to their destruction; not to .forget the oddly compelling sight of a giant mother turtle, still, strong and impenetrable, laying her hundreds of grey little eggs in the warm sand by night...
...ticklish operation of jockeying the dangerous tank out of the reactor's concrete shield. The crane that lifted it had a shielded cab to protect its operator. In 30 minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot and covered with sand. Not until last week, with the tank safely in its grave, did the scientists reveal that its radioactivity was half as strong as that of all the radium which the world has produced...
...Sand in the Gears...