Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhausting scramble. Dry snow, fine as sand, and rock, crumbled by the unending freeze-and-thaw, gave no firm foothold. But at 11:55 a.m., sucking at the thin, cold air, they were at the center of the long, narrow summit, where they planted a Peruvian flag...
There are brief appearances by Big Leaguers Bob Lemon, Jerry Priddy, Peanuts Lowrey, Hank Sauer, Irv Noren, George Metkovich and Al Zarilla, and a few authentic shots of World Series games. But The Winning Team loses out through sand-lot writing and direction and a rookie performance by Ronald Reagan in the leading role...
...eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...
...They made us undress, and blindfolded us. I was taken to a basement room and interrogated about the dynamitings. When I denied that I was involved in any way, the interrogator slapped my face. Others beat me across the legs and back with what felt like stockings filled with sand ... I was bent over a small table and tied down. I heard what sounded like a hand generator humming. Suddenly I felt horrible electric shocks in various parts of my body. I squirmed and jerked at each contact. The shocks continued. Finally my writhing broke the table, and I collapsed...
...artists, settled on samples from 53 of them for a show in Manhattan last week. The 53 were as varied as Texas itself. If there was any pattern, it was an apparent preference for the middle of the modern road. There were carefully drafted portraits, impressionistic canvases studded with sand and pebbles, meticulous still lifes, primitive religious scenes, paintings of mountains, barn dances, graveyards, oil wells, grasshoppers, madonnas and cathedrals. There was only a smattering of out & out abstraction...