Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Battalions of workers struggled to plant trees, lay pavement, erect lamp posts. Air-conditioning and simultaneous-translation equipment was installed but not hooked up. Toilets refused to flush. Generators stood uncrated in the sand. At least ten of 65 new villas for visiting chiefs of state had no walls. To add to the confusion at "Shambles-onSea," as newsmen dubbed Des Pins, the multimillion-dollar conference hall at week's end was ripped by a violent explosion-presumably the work of anti-government terrorists...
Egyptian patrols found their bodies a day or so later. Not far away were Rimm and Hauser, also dead. "The sun is horrible," Gunther had noted on another scrap of paper, while Gudrun's last snapshots showed her husband and Wanderscheck sprawled in the sand, waiting for death...
...scrap of paper dated three days after they left Cairo: "Our condition is very bad. We have only eight liters [about two gallons] of water and five cans of mango juice." Then the little VW stalled, and eight miles farther on the Micro Bus bogged down in the sand...
...where 40 surfboards were sold in 1960, 4,000 have been snapped up this year, with the season just under way. Over 300 surfers were counted in the water recently at Gilgo Beach on Long Island's South Shore, and 900 more were catching their breath on the sand. George Pittman, a surfboard dealer in Ocean City, Md., reports happily: "The fanny-dippers [ordinary bathers] are in the big majority now, but in the future the situation may be reversed...
...problem is that even experts disagree on the reasons for slides. Some Castellamare homeowners blame their losses on the builder of the apartment complex, who cut deeply into the hill face to anchor his foundations halfway up. Says one dispossessed resident: "Even a child building sand castles on the beach knows that if the boy next to him cuts away the base of his sand pile, the castle is going to collapse." On the other hand, the contractor's site was checked by geologists before the city issued him a building permit...