Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such precautions, there was an incident which caused a shudder to run through the Chamber of Commerce. Truman, out for his daily swim, was standing waist-deep in water near the sand of Truman Beach. As usual, three Secret Service agents were in the water near him and two more were in a small boat not far away. The men in the boat suddenly shouted with alarm. They had spotted two large grey fish about four feet long pursuing a school of four-inch garfish. The Secret Service men thought the big fish, heading for the area where Truman...
...westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment...
...Navajo Medicine Man Billy Norton of Gallup, N. Mex. did a large (100 sq. ft.) ceremonial sand-painting especially for a TIME photographer...
...would be a busy year for Harry Truman, especially if he runs for re-election and sets off on whistle-stop campaign tours. This week White House staffers were abustle with preparations for a move to the Little White House at Key West, where, Harry Truman hoped, sun, sand and surf would provide both a message-writing mood and enough rest to prime him for whatever demands the next year might impose on his energies...
This was relatively easy. The only rail road running east from Cairo to the Egyptian outposts along the Israeli border crosses the Suez Canal by a small swing bridge at El Ferdan (see.map). One night last week, a British lieutenant quietly led his platoon along the moonlit sand dunes approaching the bridge, where Egyptian soldiers stood on guard. There was a short, fierce battle, but in 15 minutes five Egyptians were dead and the British, with no casualties, had the bridge...