Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a fresh start as a writer. The Rev. C. L. Dodgson used the pseudonym Lewis Carroll because he thought it beneath the dignity of a clergyman and a mathematician to write a book like Alice in Wonderland. Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) and Lucile-Aurore Dupin (George Sand) used men's names because they felt women au thors were discriminated against in the 19th century. These days, pseudonymity is again in vogue, but the reasons are hardly as compelling as they once were...
After waiting three months, the Gens brothers decided to go it alone- but responsibly. First, they studied detailed exhibits of mining techniques displayed at Munich's German Museum. Back in Cologne, they bought mortar and scrounged bricks from construction sites, then placed a sand-covered ceiling over the old entrance of their excavation - to make it appear that they had filled it in. Entering the excavation through a secret door they built through the back of a cupboard, they dug farther, shoring up their excavations with brick columns and meticulously uncovering stone after stone-some of them weighing...
...little creature reached the riverbank and began to drink. Suddenly it was attacked and eaten by a crocodile-like reptile that rose without warning from the water. All that the predator left behind was the victim's head, which sank to the bottom and became embedded in the sand. In New Haven, Conn., last week, some 28 million years after this hypothetical drama, Yale Paleontologist Elwyn Simons displayed the ancient skull and reported that it belonged to the most primitive ape ever discovered-the earliest known member of man's family tree...
...figure from fairyland," and none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...
...plateau that surrounds Amman (where the temperature at night dips as low as 15°F) to the Jordan River Valley, which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents to ribbons, leaving 3,000 refugees without shelter. Many of the tents, moreover, are Sears Roebuck's "Ted Williams" models, donated by the U.S. but designed for weekend summer camping...