Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Storm & Drink. The troops swiftly dug in along the scorched ridge of sand that separates Iraq from Kuwait. But the Iraqis made not a move. Faced by a no-show foe, the troopers concentrated on survival in the searing heat (120° in the shade) and blinding sandstorms. Cracked one bare-chested trooper: "To qualify as a royal marine, all you have to do is be able to drink 19 Cokes daily." British and Kuwaiti officers shuttled companionably between neon-bright Kuwait City and the front in Sheik-supplied Cadillacs and Chryslers. Declared Brigadier General Derek Horsford, Britain...
Just before dawn, a weapons carrier bounced over scrub-spotted sand dunes to a secret site near the Mediterranean. Out stepped Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Near the water's edge, a slim rocket loomed 40 ft. up into the night...
...when Chopin wintered there with piano and Mistress George Sand, Majorca was a Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
...Rangeley Lake in the same state, the campers took nature walks between classes at the camping school, where they learned how to keep a campfire from turning into a disaster (dig a hole for the fire, line the rim with rocks; before leaving it, douse it with water and sand and stir thoroughly until it is cool enough to be sifted by hand). In Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, the streams rippled with trout (provided by the wildlife commissions), and the campsites, many with their own blacktop driveways, rippled with people. The rhododendron overhung the creeks in Minnesota...
...Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local nudists to head for the interior; then 1,200 U.S. marines, dressed in Army uniforms, hit the beach, wading and crawling past plastic obstacles and plastic corpses...