Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Tyrone Power III, 37, swashbuckling hero of Hollywood historical romances (Prince of Foxes, Blood and Sand), and his second wife, Linda Christian Power (real name: Blanca Rosa Welter), 27, retired starlet: their first child, a daughter. Name: Romina Francesca. Weight...
...recovered, suffer in vain. Every man there, lost or maimed, saved at least ten of his countrymen as the Navy plunged deep into enemy waters and sailed irresistibly through Micronesia. All honor, then, to the fighting heart of the United States Marine. Let that small stretch of coral sand . . be remembered as terrible indeed, but glorious, and the seedbed for victory...
...sand-painting on this page is one of scores that Navajo medicine men know by heart and create (and destroy) within a day. It is an integral part of the Navajo Night Chant, a nine-day rite which takes place soon after autumn's first frost. Its purpose is to heal the very...
...medicine man makes the painting by trickling powdered sandstone and charcoal from his fist on to a smooth bed of sand. He works entirely by tradition, not inspiration, painting the gods precisely as they are supposed to have pictured themselves to his ancestors...
Soft Soap. Like Tex Harvey, other drillers have found that a Spraberry well must be coddled. Because of the hard-packed nature of the formation, ordinary drilling methods will not release the oil; instead, a gelatinous compound of soap and kerosene, followed by coarse sand, must be pumped into the hole under tremendous pressure. This loosens the fractures and the oil begins to flow freely...