Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ranh every six minutes; ships unloaded millions of tons of supplies there monthly; hundreds of thousands of soldiers flew into the base to be reassigned to the northern parts of South Vietnam. It was incredible to me then that three years before there had been nothing there but white sand and the startling blue water of the South China...
Last month I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months ago. Sand drifts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...
...night, have a few drinks, and knock his fellow painter Franz Kline across the room. Folks at home knew him, thanks to Henry Luce's magazines, as "Jack the Dripper," the angry-looking young man who put canvas on the floor, slopped a little Duco paint around, added some sand and miscellaneous junk, and called the mess a painting. He seemed as full of chaos as his paintings. He smoked Camels, drank hard, then finally lost control of the whole thing and died...
...direction of Cairo. When he picked up speed and refused to land, the Israelis said, the Phantoms first fired in front of him, then at his wingtips, and only then at the plane itself. Crippled by their cannon, the 727 made a bad wheels-up landing on the Sinai sand. It hit, bounced and burst into flames. "He did a fairly poor job of it," said one of the Phantom pilots...
Shortly after 8 a.m. last Monday, Gravedigger Jean Taraud inspected a whitewashed concrete tomb in the graveyard on He d'Yeu, a small, windswept island eleven miles off the west coast of France. "I noticed that the sand around it had been neatly swept-too neatly, considering how many visitors there always are on Sunday," said Taraud. "Then I noticed chisel marks on the tombstone. I said to my colleague: The tombstone has been lifted...