Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your reader who recently wrote: "I don't want my son dumping his guts on Negev sand in the interests of Zionism"-and others who have repressed similar feelings-would do well to cool it. There has been no indication from either American or Israeli politicians that U.S. military intervention is even being considered...
...tended to see Chiang's China as a unified nation with an effective central government, even idealizing it as a breeding ground for an American-style democracy. But it was none of these. Just before his death, Sun Yat-sen had described China as "a heap of loose sand." Chiang Kai-shek tried to build on that sand the foundations of a modern and united country. But during Chiang's entire tenure as China's leader, the country remained beset by outside aggression, deep internal divisions, corruption and inefficiency in Chiang's ruling party...
...brief sojourn under the Charles River and the train is exposed to the rational sunlight at a stop called "Community College." A large white building nearby proclaims itself in modernistic lettering as "ECTURE." Otherwise only railroad yards and sand an gravel companies to be seen, No one gets off the train at Community College and no one gets...
...STORY of Mariana serves the authors the way a grain of sand serves an oyster. It acts as an irritant to which they return again and again, a stimulus to the creation of an entire world--a world constructed from materials extracted painfully from within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced...
...Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME'S Eddie Adams...