Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politician and educator. He transformed China from a prostrate and humiliated country into a strong and self-sufficient nation. His revolutionary government altered the balance of power in Asia and the strategic thinking of the world. His teachings transformed the Chinese, long known to be loose as sand as a nation, into a unified, well-disciplined people devoted to building a strong country...
...than ours. So I'll stay and take my chances, just as long as the blacks don't go bonkers." His buddy, a Salisbury mechanic, concurred: "I don't like the idea of being ruled by blacks, but we've had our heads in the sand here for ten years, and now we're going...
After a four mile trek over sand hills, shrubbery, Fordham gneiss and rain showering the Bronx, the Harvard runners were still trailing the field coming up to Cemetery Hill, the aptly named final obstacle on the undulating course...
Some movies, made especially for the undemanding, easy-living days of summer, contrive to linger on after the season has passed. Finding them in a local theater is like shaking forgotten grains of beach sand out of a shoe. A few survivors still on view...
...Dalai Lama could interpret them during the ceremony. On the platform were two ever present reminders of tantric practice: a statue of Kay-Dor, a ferocious manifestation of the Buddha, and an elaborate mandala, a ritual design used in invocations, made out of ground precious stones and sand...