Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...
More Credibility. In terms of cold war politics, the small cloud of sand from Nevada was meant to cast a long shadow. The U.S. hoped that the blast, along with a second underground shot that came the next day, and with the others that were soon to follow, would help reestablish what Pentagonese labels "credibility"-meaning Communist belief that the U.S. has the weapons to fight, and the will to use them if need be. Last week the U.S. and its Western allies further advanced credibility with more taut, determined words on the Berlin crisis...
When Schuman was 19, his older sister coaxed him off the sand lots long enough to sit through a concert by the New York Philharmonic. It was love at first sound...
...lady with a rolled-up copy of Variety could have done it alone. This particular D-day occurred scarcely a week ago, and the three U.S. soldiers were nothing more than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not overly cute story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's His tory of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...