Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna. Writing his first novel at 49, an ex-Navy enlisted man tells how a ship's crew degenerates behind a façade of spit and polish, then finds itself again...
...Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
...Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10 million spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of the guerrilla genius of World War I, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...with the Arab world than with France and Europe's Common Market. He also opposed the nationalists' agitation on the border claims. Said Hassan's closest political confidant, Cabinet Director Ahmed Reda Guedira, after the purge: "The King had to get rid of the grains of sand which always kept the state machinery out of order ... the leaders and platforms of the old parties are stale, like empty eggshells...
...leave dehydration and indicated that we would like to know about the sources of supplies. "I'm not directly concerned with purchasing, myself," he told us, "but I do know that we make a special effort to get just what we want. Just as an example, take the sand we use in our spinach. Pure, sterile sea sand--chemical quality, mind you, and that costs money--added automatically in measured amounts to each batch of cooked spinach. I might mention that I designed the machine which puts it in." We expressed our admiration for such ingenuity and were about...