Word: sanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Atop a sere, windblown hill rising 2,000 ft. above the central Sinai desert, 170 American men and women this week assume the task of securing the fragile peace between Egypt and Israel. Dressed in bright orange uniforms-so that they can be easily seen against the sun-baked sand-the members of the State Department's Sinai Field Mission are operating monitoring stations in the Giddi and Mitla passes, scene of three wars in the past 20 years. The puny American presence could scarcely halt an armored column intent on starting a fourth war. Rather, since Egypt...
...scarcely four weeks, the area has been converted into a self-contained Little America. Temporary barracks and a mess hall were flown in from the U.S., along with generators, electric fly catchers, Xerox copiers and even "Porta Potti" toilets. By September prefabricated concrete modules will be in place. Sand is even being shipped into the Sinai in a coals-to-Newcastle operation; the local sand is so salt-saturated that it is useless for cement mixing...
...curves and jargon may forget that there are any values at all implicit in the "science." The student may forget that there is no objective reason why an introductory course should spend two months studying profit maximization and two days on tax reform. Ec 10 is an elaborate sand castle, perfect in all but its tenuous sandy foundation. Too often students cross the drawbridge without taking the time to investigate the very ground on which they are standing...
...Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away to the airport health office. Said...
...capacity to induce guilt, and [America's capacity to absorb] guilt is what makes us most human as well as, at times, a bit absurd. It is said that if a Communist regime were to take over in the Sahara, there would in time be a shortage of sand. We shall doubtless in time have tested that hypothesis, but we can be fairly confident that to the very end there would be those in the West convinced that the sand had gone to build swimming pools for the rich-in the West. Yeats sensed the mood: "Come fix upon...