Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond the sand bar, where we had walked the skiff over the shoals at the end of a languorous afternoon, the wind freshened suddenly ahead of a curtain of rain. The usually placid tropical lagoon hurled water into the skiff. The three of us were drenched. Willie, a local fisherman, grinned at the adventure. Our hulking captain frowned, grabbed a bucket and handed one to me. Brando read my fear. "Don't worry," he shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain...
...Suddenly Brando turned toward me and the illusion of youth vanished. That famous face with its jutting forehead and broken nose is a face that has seen and experienced everything. His wet shirt hugged a fat belly. "Poachers," Brando whispered, looking at two young Polynesian boys lying on the sand. They smiled nervously. Brando studied them hard for a moment and slowly moved away. "They're O.K.," he said. "They're trapping lobsters." The kids were lucky not to have been egg hunting. Even at 52 and 40 Ibs. overweight, Marlon Brando could have taught a forceful lesson...
...decks. Raspberry plants and apple trees for backyards are big sellers in Portland. During the hot summer, Miami area gardeners turn to black-eyed peas and watermelons. Dick and Hope McKim of Miami even converted their swimming pool into a garden, filling it with layers of rock and sand, then topsoil. Says Mrs. McKim: "Now instead of the pool costing us $50 a month to maintain...
Caddies in the pre-modern era of golf also put in a hard day of work. Before wooden tees were ever invented, small mounds of wet sand served the purpose. The result was that caddies traipsed along the fairway with troughs of wet sand slung around their necks before it dawned on the members of the Innerleven golf course in Fife, Scotland to install stationary sand boxes on each...
Wayward hackers have been known to place the job security of many a caddy in jeopardy. One of the more dreaded layouts was a quaint nine-hole course on Weihaiwei Island in China that was shut down after the revolution. Sporting greens of packed fine sand instead of grass, its most conspicuous landmarks were an adjacent shooting gallery, an abandoned fort swarming with scorpions, and a short ninth hole which required bouncing a drive off the clubhouse roof...