Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who want to stay a little closer to home and who don't mind Coney-Islandish hordes for their beach companions, Nantasket and Revere offer miles of jammed sand and plenty of cold, cold water. The gamester who doesn't shy at pitching a few pennies or getting a quick thrill in between swims via roller-coaster can find plenty of amusement at both beaches. "Walking Charlie," Pokerino, the Fun House, and peep shows are only part of the come-ons. There are long, dark, and grimy tunnels of love at both resorts. And if you don't feel...
...some spots the water forced its way under the levees and burst upward in erupting "sand boils." Emergency crews hurriedly closed them off and smothered them with sandbags. It was exhausting, unrelenting, muddy toil, organized with a precision and teamwork learned from years of hard experience...
Water used to fill the pool is first filtered through enormous tanks in the sub-basement which contain a type of sand found only near Cape May, New Jersey. The water in the pool is changed over three times daily, but the pool itself is emptied and cleaned but once a year...
...shows the flecting landscape as ghostly gray and white. And as people pass through mirrors, the glass yields like water or shatters then mends again. And, after Orpheus, tries to follow Death through a looking-glass and fails, his reflection fades into a puddle of water in a sand dune...
...empty, rolling sand hills of northwest Nebraska, where most roads are simply twin ruts and a 10,000-acre ranch is small, some cattlemen hunt down predatory coyotes with their airplanes. When a 32-year-old ranch hand named Elaine Ellis ran wild with a shotgun and a revolver one night last week, he got the same treatment...