Word: sanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suddenly Frut realizes that the trouble with Utopia is that it is boring. To stir up the Blue Capers, he tells them about the Thing and its tracings on the sand. "Perhaps it was a dream," the educators scoff, pointing out that sensible Blue Capers accept only "two hypotheses, the termite and the erosion theories." The Cave and the Rock ends with Frut thoroughly disillusioned with lizardly rationalism...
...dwellings of the Talking God and his brother, the Calling God. Last week, after a worried council, the medicine men announced their decision. At the time of the next full moon, the Navajos of the Lukachukai region must hold a Hozhooji (Blessing Way) ceremony with all-night chanting and sand painting "to offer profuse apologies for the act of permitting both Indians and non-Indians to take ore from Mother Earth without permission...
...Revelation 13:1,4: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy . . . and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with...
...griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...