Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noticeably more irritable since a Soviet sub parked on a sand bar several miles south of here last year, Swedish naval officials have vowed to force any future intruders to surface "even if the entire population of Stockholm has to rent snorkels and go down to get them...
...staging areas for our rescue team was in an isolated desert region about 200 miles south of Tehran that seemed from aerial photographs to be smooth enough for night landings by transport planes. I authorized the flight of a small airplane for a close visual examination of the desert sand, to see how smooth and firm it was. I was not making a final commitment; at the same time, I wanted training operations and planning to continue...
Cardinal starter and winner Joaquin Andujar pitched six sand one-their innings of three-hit shutout baseball until a Ted Simmons line drive hit him in the knee and removed him from the game. Jim Kaat, Doug Bear and finally Bruce Sutter finished the game...
...behind the Biology Labs and in front of the Divinity School sits Harvard's strangest building. Outside, in the shadow of the labs, a little mob of preschool children are running around a makeshift, fenced-in playground. "YARD RULES," a nearby sign reads: "Smacking the windows is not allowed. Sand stays in the sandbox and off the slide...
...usual complement of comedy, conversation and glitz, along with video-taped glimpses at the family album. If a few things go wrong along the way, so much the better. Carson's comedy thrives on crisis. It is fueled by failure. Carson craves bad jokes. They are the rough sand he turns into pearls...