Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was plain speaking at last: it is the French who must decide whether to build on rock or on sand...
...treaties are not ratified," said Premier Mayer, "all these systems of guarantees will collapse. It would be necessary, then, to rebuild on sand-in a difficult atmosphere, with allies whom we would have disillusioned and German partners who, perhaps, would not be the same...
...with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...
...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
...breath asking scene of the spitfire over Dover which sets the powerful pace before the titles flash on the screen in Breaking the Sound Newton, buried in the sand up to his head and teaming eloquently at the rising tide in the title role of Black-beard Charlie Chaplin's imitation of a violin is with unsanforized legs in limelight...