Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered out, and watched helplessly as his $150,000 craft split open and sank...
...turned into a nebulous affair involving suddenly revived organizations dedicated to desenvolviment das ruas (street development), an unlimited supply of idea men, well-wishers, and skeptics, and the prompt attention of an incumbent councilman running for re-election who arrived with trucks and work crews and began spreading sand with a flourish...
This latter measure worked well on the less-travelled streets where the sand wasn't pushed out of the holes and off the street by traffic, but the more widely used streets and intersections remained impassable. The situation worsened daily as the families living on these streets shovelled away the few remaining high spots to build dams to keep mud out of their homes...
Somehow the mud had to be drained and the particular stretch of road leveled and then covered with a packed layer of sand. We worked with some of the families concerned and suggested that they petition the city for a small bulldozer which could work in the narrow streets. The city didn't have...
...project proceeded and was eventually completed as the dozer came to level the road, and the councilman came to dump two truckloads of sand for the workers to spread and tamp. The drained mud dried in the sun and was covered with sand and urban community development gained another adherent. Sunday came to a close. The workers congratulated themselves on a job well done, the councilman busily shook hands, and the Peace Corps Volunteers went for a beer...