Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero of the Hour. As Beirut buzzed with the news that the stricken Champollion was about to break up, 25,000 curious townspeople streamed out to the sand dunes. Lebanese troops cleared a way to the water's edge and set up box seats for Beirut's dignitaries; Coke and peanut vendors did a roaring trade...
...read the newspaper accounts of his arrival. Then, though he hates exercise, he went out for some roadwork, to get used to the altitude. After that, he was driven to the Plaza Mexico, the world's biggest bullfight arena, which he had never seen. He stamped over the sand, looking for pitfalls, and paced off the distance from the center of the ring to the barrier. Then he went to look at the bulls, the biggest and best Mexico could provide. Someone asked him how he liked the looks of them. "I never like a bull," he answered...
...while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards and lashes them to the mast. But Blackbeard's dark deeds finally catch up with him when his own men, led by First Mate William Bendix, bury him up to his neck in the sand and leave him to await the incoming tide (in real life, Blackbeard was shot by a British lieutenant on the high seas...
...caretaker discovered a green Ford truck, neatly cut up with an acetylene torch. In both cases the crooks had been clever, but not clever enough. They buried the gun in a low-tide mud-flat, but the children decided this was just the mud-flat they wanted to build sand-castles in. It was "clean-up, paint-up" day in the town which used the dump, and the very day in the town which used the dump, and the very day the dismembered truck appeared, the dump should have been unusually busy; debris would have covered the parts...
...Poetry Foundation was established in 1929 by Morris Gray '77, who left the income of $10,000 to bring contemporary poets to Harvard. T. S. Eliot, Carl Sand burg and N.E. Cummings have appeared under it's auspices...