Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astounding fact is that 85% of the world's supply of this capitalist treat comes from the Caspian Sea, and all Caspian sturgeon breed in a single 1,000-acre sand-and-gravel spawning ground near the mouth of Russia's Volga River-even those caught in Iranian waters. An article in Russia's highbrow literary newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, signed by a group of intellectuals that included eight biologists, contained a dire warning that the completion of a projected hydroelectric power station would reduce the spawning grounds to a mere 22 acres...
Back to Work. For a week the patient was immobilized with sand bags to promote healing. By then the nerves and muscles on his right side were already improving, and within a month he had full use of his right arm. Last week he was back at work...
...heels over a victory that greatly increased both her prestige and power. Overruling two lower-court decisions, the Supreme Court held that the FTC acted correctly when, in 1962, it ordered Colgate-Palmolive and the Ted Bates ad agency to stop using a mock-up of Plexiglas and sand to demonstrate on TV that Palmolive Rapid Shave could make it easy to "shave" sandpaper. From now on, the FTC will be in a position to ban any deceptive mock-ups that advertisers try to use to "prove" their claims...
...Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots as he screamed into the Cat Cay checkpoint, with Holocaust smack on his stern. Trying to beat 007 to the checkpoint at Cat Cay pier, Lewis lost his bearings, ran Holocaust onto a sand bar and out of the race. By that point, Dick Bertram was two miles back, waging a mighty fight against smooth water...
Died. Linda Darnell, 41, sultry brunette star, and one of Hollywood's great natural beauties, who appeared in some 50 movies (Blood and Sand, Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives) from 1939 on; of burns suffered during a pre-dawn fire that started in the living room of a friend and former secretary whom she was visiting; in Chicago...