Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Santamaria Beach in Havana Province was a beautiful swimming area. The water was warm and very clear. As the waves came in from the horizon, I could see different shades of blue. Big leafy trees lined the shore. Clear white sand and a light but humid breeze surrounded us. In bright-colored swim suits, Cubans crowded the shore. Some had radios, cameras and cassette players. Others rode the surf on beach balls and inner tubes. The many shades of Cubans swimming together or relaxing in the sand made an impressive sight. No segregation. No arguments. When we hit the surf...
...Visconti. Sanda lives on the edge of the forest at Rambouillet outside Paris with her son by Actor Christian Marquand, her current lover, Painter Frédérique Pardo, and Pardo's mother. When as a rebellious teen-ager Dominique settled on a stage name, it was Sand -as in George Sand, the elegant cigar-smoking 19th century novelist. But apparently a century seemed not enough to avoid possible confusion, so Dominique added an a. And left it at that...
...wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand bluffs of the Suez Canal enabled Egyptian troops to cross at unexpected points and shatter the Israeli Bar-Lev Line within six hours. At his death, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat praised Ismail as "a hero whose name will forever be linked with the glories of Egyptian military history...
...series of witty and often profound essays, a scientist sees the world not in a grain of sand, but in the pullulations of a single cell...
...black evangelist was sewed up inside a tom-tom and starved to death while drummers pounded incessantly on the skin top. The bodies of several other Christians have been found buried up to their necks in sand, their heads swarming with ants. According to some reports, more than 130 native Protestant pastors and lay church leaders have been assassinated in the landlocked African republic of Chad since last November...