Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of you have written to tell me how much you have enjoyed TIME'S art pages in color, but few of you have gone as far as Reader William E. Farr of Vancouver, Wash. When TIME ran a color reproduction of a Navajo sand-painting (Oct. 8, 1951), Farr decided he wanted to copy the pattern-on a hooked rug. About a year later he sent us the finished product, a 4-by-5-ft. rug. He had spent 320 working hours making enlarged drawings of the painting, transferring them to the monk's cloth used...
...MARYLAND, Democrat George P. Mahoney, a big sand-and-gravel man, is leading Representative James Glenn Beall for Democratic Senator Herbert O'Conor's seat. Eisenhower would have to carry Maryland by a heavy majority to pull Beall in with...
...found coils of barbed wire looped along the ground. He followed the wire, detouring a guard tower, followed a set of footprints into the wire, found a pair of wire-snippers dropped by a guard. Mieczyslaw cut the wire and tiptoed across a ten-meter band of smooth sand toward the next barrier, a low stake fence draped with barbed wire. He snipped his way through that, hurried across another stretch of smooth sand toward the third barrier, a higher fence. Suddenly he stopped. He had stepped on a wire concealed in the sand. Somewhere nearby a bell began...
Mechanized Attack. In Boston, when her boy friend quit dating her, Mary Leroy slashed his tires, threw sand into his gas tank and salt into the crankcase, set fire...
...principality, the picture is dressed up with lavish sets and up-to-date allusions to airplanes, submarines, germ warfare and atomic power. There are also a number of pseudo-slapstick chases-e.g., at the climax, Mephisto, menaced by an angry mob because his alchemistic gold has turned to sand, vanishes once & for all in a puff of smoke...