Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with one major premise-the absence of God. Their despair and their task are to fashion a post-Christian ethos, to find a meaning for life without supernatural sanctions. Man, as they see him, is a creature trapped between two voids, prenatal and posthumous, on a shrinking spit of sand he calls time...
...stroke at the par-three 13th. After the 14th, with four holes to go, he still had a five-stroke lead. Then, with incredible swiftness, disaster struck. On the par-three, 150-yd. 15th hole, Palmer's No. 7 iron shot strayed off line and caught a yawning sand trap to the right of the green. He bogeyed the hole, and lost two strokes when Casper curled a downhill, 30-ft. putt smack into the center of the cup for a birdie...
Back home in Italy they are dubbed Gli Insabbiati - literally, "buried in the sand." Abroad, some 25,000 expatriate engineers, surveyors, carpenters, me chanics and truck drivers have helped make Italy a major force in the rich, ruggedly competitive field of interna tional construction. The Gli Insabbiati started with projects in the deserts of North Africa - hence their nickname -but now they are spreading around the world. More and more, they resemble the Caesars' legions, who two millennia ago built highways, aqueducts and cities from Scotland to Syria...
Watson feels that the clubs' ability to contribute something worthwhile to an undergraduate's experience at Harvard is proven by the facility with which the clubs attract new members. "The clubs can't just bury their heads in the sand and let the college go by. If they do this, who wants to belong...
Fortunately the thing cannot be a blob of irritable radioactive ooze, for a moment later it knocks at the door and announces, with a hammer-and-sickly grin: "We're Norwheeguns." Actually the nervous Norsemen are petrified Soviet sailors whose sub has run aground on a sand bar. Their spokesman is Alan Arkin, a cabaret satirist (Second City) and Broadway clown (Luv), making a major movie debut that probably deserves an Oscar, a Lenin Peace Prize, and any other encouragements a wicked old world can offer...