Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physically safe for a new series of blasts: Eniwetok and Bikini, the Pacific sites of former tests, are too small and too close to inhabited islands. Last week the British solved the problem by giving the U.S. permission to fire off a nuclear series on Christmas Island, a sand-covered coral atoll isolated in the central Pacific...
Instant Justice. Worrying the ad community is the FTC's recent cease-and-desist order against Colgate-Palmolive Co. and its hard-selling agency, Ted Bates & Co. In a Bates TV commercial, Palmolive's Rapid Shave cream was applied to "sandpaper," and the sand was shaved cleanly off. But Dixon's FTC found Bates had used Plexiglas instead of sandpaper and that sand was not in fact shaved off the real thing. The FTC then ordered that Colgate and Bates should never again falsely advertise shaving cream or use "spurious mock-ups or demonstrations for any product...
...well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing in murals-has erected the scaffolding of his autobiography entitled A Churchill Canvas...
...Cross on a red and blue field-was run up the pole, and a 19-gun salute rang out. But not a single gun was fired; since the few ancient artillery pieces in Apia were unsafe, police simulated the salute by exploding 19 charges of gelignite buried in the sand...
...Sand and a fine salt spray sliced into the open Jeep, and the driver and three passengers scrootched deeper into their parkas. A voice cried "Onward!" And the Jeep scuffed up Cape Cod's North Beach. The leader's black-gloved hand shot up, and the Jeep stopped. He aimed a long-lens camera out to sea as the eyes of his companions followed. One man fumbled with a fowling piece, then dropped it when the leader mumbled something. Another scribbled on a tiny note...