Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beach volleyball. For one thing, he was always fully clothed. Also, had he been working on the Southern California beach where beach volleyball was presumably invented, he would have thought of some reason why volleyball couldn't be played. He would have said the posts made marks in the sand...
...then again, the dining halls aren't worth fighting too much. Two nights ago, the main course was some Chinese pork chop concoction. It looked like shake-'n-bake pork covered with sand. I'm not even Jewish, but I know that I'd go through any religion's hell for eating that sludge...
...Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
...Dole says he trusts in the hard way, and well he might, hailing from the garden of pressed sand called western Kansas, where the weather's hard, the water's hard, and anything that comes easy probably isn't worth having. This way, the hard way, says Dole, is the only way he has ever got anything and anywhere in this life. It is how he swallowed his pride as he and his family moved into the basement of his boyhood home so that oilmen could move in above them. How he came home from World War II not alive...
...volunteers cleared courts to the demonic sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis singing Great Balls of Fire. In Savannah, Georgia, where yachting was staged, a media-transport coordinator consisted of a man in a deck chair on an empty sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only 230 miles from the nearest real sand, beach-volleyball fans sipped daiquiris in their bathing trunks while strangers sprayed them down with high-tech, fluorescent-green water pistols. And when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers...