Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists hit. Under a heavy barrage, a battalion of Chinese scrambled up the dusty, littered slopes of Harry. Battling hand to hand in their crumbling trenches, the outnumbered G.I.s drove the Reds off. The shelling continued. One by one, the bunkers collapsed, covering American and Chinese bodies with sand and dust. King was reinforced; the Reds attacked again & again. During the night, 20,000 artillery and mortar shells had exploded in an area smaller than Times Square. But the hill remained in U.S. hands...
...French intelligence. They knew of no Colonel Berthier nor the colonel's other associates, except for Alberto. He had, indeed, been a police inspector-but three years before he had been fired for embezzlement. By this time, the baron was hardly surprised to learn that his uranium was sand and his heavy water came straight from...
Your Ford empire story [May 18] was excellently done-with one exception: "The vast empire was as shaky and ready to collapse as a 25-year-old model T trying to make its way through deep sand...
...owner of a 1911 model T, I find the simile quite distasteful . . . My 42-year-old T is neither shaky nor ready to collapse, and is occasionally run through deep sand just for the exercise...
Stackpole stops his story before the petroleum boom came along to supply most of the world's need for oil. But even before that, the clouds were gathering over Nantucket. Stubborn sand bars drove captains to New Bedford and other ports; the appeal of the Gold Rush drew crewmen to California. But if the oldtime whaling man disappeared, he left a record behind him, as Author Stackpole notes, as citizen of the world, man of industry, oceanographer and as "a sea-hunter whose exploits make ... a bright page in American history...