Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Writ in Sand...
...your Oct. 8 Navajo sand-painting: Some years ago the Museum of Modern Art had a group of Indians giving a demonstration of this extraordinary art. It was a religious ceremony, and the picture was swept out each afternoon with ritualistic exercises...
...cause of it all was brand new linoleum, slick as ice. The auditorium manager promised to sand it thoroughly before the next performance...
...full flood. Under the grey smear of incessant rain, its people scrabble heroically for survival behind their leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with the sweet smell of floating gasoline. Debris swims silently downstream to clog up on the bridges, finally carry them away. A privy goes...
...interned him along with other American correspondents just after Pearl Harbor. Nineteen days later, on Christmas Eve, 1941, he managed to elude his guards and with the aid of Chinese Guerillas escape to free China. Along the way he had to hide out from Japanese patrols by crouching in sand pits and covering himself with cabbages...