Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Mr. Perley and I, frequent visitors to the school, have seen no nudes cavorting, no throwing of food or sand, no emphasis on apple peeling...
...commander in chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo's swank Automobile Club denouncing Nasser and provoking other society matrons...
...return to discipline is well advanced. But to Ken Reiner, permissiveness makes happy children happier and good teachers better, and at his Midtown School in Hollywood's Silver Lake district, he has taken it to new heights. The children may write on the walls, throw sand and food at each other, shun their classes and practice card tricks and wander about the fanciful school grounds all day, smiling at the wonder of it all. The teachers, wary of inhibiting the children, let them do whatever they want to do, and what they usually want to do is play...
...doubt your writers labor long and hard in their man-made skyscraper to achieve a fine turn of phrase. But those who live with wind, sand and stars have only to translate the wisdom of Allah, which is written in his works. They have the true eloquence of the TIMEless...
...ordinary salmon. Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing. Dr. Donaldson hopes to develop them into a race of supersalmon that will forage in the northeast Pacific like high-bred beef cattle on the Nebraska sand hills...