Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roads during the four-month rainy season. During this period from May to August the rain becomes a way of life, often falling continuously for several days. Fishing becomes sporadic, and all but indoor workers are forced to sit and do little but watch the steady downpour turn the sand and dirt roads into rivers of mud which settle in low spots and are churned into black muck by traffic...
...mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped by two-ton rhinos, herds of elephant and lions basking...
...down the Southeast Expressway, past the three-deckered homes of South Boston, past the innumerable suburbs. You didn't go skiing and the New York trip some-how fizzled out and you just can't bear Cambridge for one more day; so on a whim you try the Cape--sand dunes covered with snow, tufts of tall, yellow grass peeking out of the white cover--that kind of thing. And you find yourself driving over the canal, anxious for your first look at wintry Cape...
...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
...break with Brice made international headlines; his divorce from his second wife, Eleanor Holm, cost him over a quarter of a million dollars. His marriage to Doris Vidor lasted six months; his third and fourth wives were the same woman-Joyce Matthews. In recent years, the grain of sand decided to leave the public eye, but there was no getting out, or no need to, for that matter. Rose had traded his Broadway sports jacket for a Wall Street vest. He owned 160,000 shares of AT&T which made him the company's biggest single stockholder...