Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse & Worse. The problem lies in the fact that a beach is a moving thing, alternately yielding and receiving sand from the action of tides and waves...
Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...beaches with hotels, apartments and roads, leveled the high dunes that blocked his view, thus stripping them of their protective grasses. Navigational jetties, jutting into the sea to protect shipping at river mouths, and man-made inlets change the pattern of offshore currents and block the littoral flow of sand to downdrift beaches, literally starving them out. There is no easy way to combat erosion. All along the Atlantic, communities have lined their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping the sand before it can be carried away. But the groins are only partly effective, and, like...
...Sand, sea and sky are an essay in greys, the water blackest. Syllables flow from our throats, ours and mine, but I am shamed by the distant hot dog man whose trousers reach almost to the armpits. He has no chest or stomach, in fact, no body...
...cave where McDowall claims to have unearthed evidence of a lost human culture. Evans arrives, dynamites the cave, and mercifully lets Heston go his way, complete with mute mate. But after traveling some miles down the beach, Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty buried waist-high in sand, thus revealing the great secret that the planet of the apes is dear old earth after a nuclear...