Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of the millions who still dispute the outcome in 1972. Said Knight after winning the gold: "I didn't think players could come together and play as hard and as well as these kids did." The first Olympic basketball competition, in 1936, was played outdoors on sand and clay, and the final was held in a dribble-deadening rain. The game may have to be played that way again before the U.S.'s hard-charging knights fail to scale every summit...
...effort to stem the tide of destruction, workers with the Southern Pacific Railroad maneuvered a large crane last week along a 27-mile causeway built of 50 million cu. yds. of rock, sand and gravel that divides the lake into north and south sections. The aim of the engineers: to begin carving a 300-ft. breach in the causeway, the final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City...
Pageantry and pomp, tear sand cheers, and, as ever, magic in the moment...
Such anonymity is over. Cameras and reporters will trail her everywhere, questioning and judging. She will be tested constantly on her ability to perform. Inevitably, political image polishers will urge her to sound more statesmanlike, to control her brashness, to sand down her New York edges. She will become a little more homogenized, a little less original. More "vice-presidential." She may even start sounding like Walter Mondale...
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head, hit the sand, rolled over and ran his hand across his forehead. Sure enough, there was blood. Again they carried him to the medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...