Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are several structural problems, of course. Some means must be devised for either bullet-proofing the wooden ceiling or otherwise making it impossible to shoot the squash players upstairs. One wall must be made bullet-proof as well--either sand, armor-plating or fibreglass will do--and there must be lighting and heating added...
Bering himself died in December and, strapped to a plank, was shoved into the soft sand until he disappeared. Only a little more than half the crew lived to see the spring. Under Waxell's command they broke up the old St. Peter, which had crashed ashore soon after they landed, and built themselves a hooker. By August all was ready, the survivors set sail, and two weeks later hove into Petropavlovsk with "joy and heartfelt delight." North America must have seemed a poor bargain to the Russians. Eventually, they were to sell out their share of it-Alaska...
Whipple says that man will be faced with a rain of meteorites that will constantly pelt the space station. The great majority of them will be smaller than a grain of sand. Large ones would be very rare, but meteorites range in size up to "flying mountains...
...Saud's heir apparent, 50-year-old Saud, has little of his father's old forcefulness and guile. He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...
Today he "paints" with thick pastes, viscous mixtures of zinc oxide and heavy varnish. Sometimes he adds sand to make a kind of mortar, applies it with large, dull putty knives. The soft colors he uses -rose, brown, dull reds and yellow-spread erratically as his "empasto" heaves into unexpected shapes and dries...