Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved 400,000 miles of crisscrossing the ocean, towing special magnetometers developed by Treasure Salvors' Fay Feild, an electronics engineer. Occasionally, Fisher brought in seers, psychics and trained dolphins to break the technological tedium. There were thousands of fruitless dives into holes blown through 20 ft. of sand. And in 1975 there was tragedy. A week after the Fishers' oldest son Dirk discovered bronze cannons that irrefutably identified the Atocha, he and his wife and another diver drowned when a salvage tug capsized...
...American Howard Sands, who had originally been slated not to play because of an ankle injury suffered the previous day against Dartmouth, seemed a bit cautious in his play. Nevertheless, he toppled Penn State's Jeff Factor, 6-4, 6-2 to take the number-one singles showdown. Factor hit few winners and could only retrieve Sand's more carefully placed shots. A lankily-built player, Factor had trouble bending down for some low shots, and as he became more frustrated, he was distracted by the sunshine and nearly everything around him. Sands continued to play consistently strong...
...more than 20 years, Novelist and Naturalist Peter Matthiessen has been a powerful voice crying in, and about, the wilderness. With unruffled grace he has defended threatened species such as the African rhino (Sand Rivers) and a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea (Under the Mountain Wall), whose territory is being claimed by industrialized societies. In his 15th book, however, the author explores a tragedy closer to home. The territory is the Great Plains, and the endangered species is the American Indian...
...faculty party, Lianna spots Dick frolicking in a sandbox with one of his female students. When, later in the evening, she accuses him of indefidelity, he neither admits to not denies the charge. But the thin trickle of sand as he removes his shoe confirms his guilt. Lianna leaves him and moves in with Ruth, her night-school psychology professor. It's that simple. One day she is married, the next she has a female lover...
...presented in original mono sound; there are also 60 never-issued alternate takes of songs like Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and eight cuts never released before, including a lubricious version of the Pat Boone groaner, Love Letters in the Sand...