Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went in Luanda there were jeeps, carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted at the mud and sand and at Portugal's semi-feudal dictatorship which was wasting them there in a futile holding action. They overthrew that government in 1974. But although the new government was willing and even anxious to give Angola up, the three factions of the Angolan guerilla movement still hadn't formed a coalition...
...told the sketchy details of the seizure in his early morning briefing. The U.S. had no information on why the ship had been seized; indeed, that remained unclear throughout the week. Some officials speculated that, flushed with their conquest of the country, the Cambodian Communists were simply kicking sand in American faces. Others suggested that the Cambodians were reinforcing their claim to the Wai Islands, where geologists believe oil may lie under the sea bottom. Still other U.S. officials feared that the Cambodians had taken the ship in order to use it as a chip in future bargaining with...
...which means that come the final week of June. When most will have been three weeks departed from Cambridge, the linksters will depart for Columbus, Ohio and a rendezvous with the same sand traps and water hazards that once caused Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf a whole lot of grief...and bogeys...
...traces of panic. Newspapers were crammed with notices reading "Xe ban " (car for sale) and "Nha ban " (house for sale), and though both cars and houses were selling at one-sixth their value of just a month ago, there were still no takers. Women filled barrels with dirt and sand to be used as roadblocks. Thousands of troops strolled aimlessly through the city, as though whole divisions had been given leave at once. Paratroopers in jump boots and camouflaged fatigues were everywhere, cadging cigarettes from Americans: "You give me smoke, mister...
Evans's American scenes record man-made civilization--especially that of the 30's or Depression Era. "If you're in love with civilization as I am you stick to that...Nature rather bores me as an art form...I think, 'Oh yes, look at that sand dune; what of it?'" His work is almost exclusively of this country: "Suprisingly to me, I don't work very well in other countries. I'm very interested in England and France, and I know them fairly well, but I can't seem to produce fresh, creative work. It's all a stage...