Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secure behind a 750-mile-long desert wall of sand and rock, the armed forces of King Hassan II of Morocco have gained the upper hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full...
This lack of knowledge is unfortunate. The Erie Canal and its tributaries do, in fact, offer something for everyone. The canal system provides shippers with an inexpensive way to move high-bulk goods like sand, cement and asphalt. It gives pleasure boaters a safe way of getting from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. It even offers the salmon who migrate through Lake Ontario an easy way to reach their spawning grounds. "Some salmon still fight the falls," explains Gunnlaugsson. "But the smart ones wait below the locks and go upstream with the boats." -By Peter Staler
...enthusiastic reception at Bowling Green University for Ronald Reagan reveals an important image of today's university students: they have gone from thrusting their fists into the air to sticking their heads in the sand...
Everyone remembers a time in childhood when, while quietly playing in the school sandbox all of your friends started to throw sand at one another...
When you got caught for throwing sand, the consequences were transitory: Mrs. Eliot didn't hold your violation against you for very long, and you were free to return to the sandbox the next...