Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along the boundary-marking Pinka and Raab rivers worked loose and washed over to the Austrian bank. On April 1, a 60-year-old Austrian farmer digging for sand on the banks of the Pinka hit a mine, which blasted off both his hands. Three weeks ago, Claudia Kracher, 2½, was playing in a pile of sand that had been trucked up from the Raab by a neighbor for mixing concrete. She stepped on a mine, which severed...
...Gerbils, or sand rats, may make desirable pets, but they are voracious seed and plant eaters. Once they become abundant, they are hard to eradicate, and the damage they do to agriculture is enormous: in countries where they have established colonies, they do heavy damage to wheat, oat and other grain crops. The introduction of gerbils is banned by both the California Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Game, which enforce a joint regulation...
...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...
Epps lives with controversy. "I've seen the explosive materials in Negro communities," Epps says, "and have come to the conclusion that the radical position is the most practical solution--if you don't have it you have your head in the sand...
...crackling press conferences disappear, for the city is "transformed into a cultural capital." In fact, this is neither Kennedy's Washington nor Washington's Kennedy. It is a legend for export, smoothly put together, fiercely partisan and as heedless of history as a love letter written in sand...