Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compared with more than 1 million only 20 years ago. These survivors, almost all of them educated landowners plugged in by computers to the latest technologies of soil, fertilizers and cultivation, were ready and waiting. The terrible floods of last year had left many of them convinced that the sand-covered bottomlands -- some abandoned in discouragement -- would cut into the yield...
...course begins on a half-mile flat that leads into the "cow-path," which is a 200 meter stretch that can be likened to a pit of quick sand. The unfortunate runners then face their first real challenge, known as "bitch hill" to masochistic course veterans, which is in effect a mountain side that never ends...
Expertly crosscut with Wade's life is a series of chapters called "Evidence" into which O'Brien throws psychological theories, passages of presidential biography, even accounts of battlefront atrocities in 1776. Here are quotations from Dostoyevsky and George Sand; selections from The Magician's Handbook and the Nuremberg Principles; an item about the 30,000 people who go missing every year. Thus, for example, as we travel deeper into Wade's battlefront memories, we are also given hard-and-fast, nonfiction testimony from the men who perpetrated the My Lai massacre. The "Evidence" chapters broaden the book's focus...
That said, it is far from certain that the conference will have lasting impact. Most U.N. action programs seem to be the bureaucratic equivalent of Tibetan mandalas, those intricate designs of colored sand arduously crafted through years of work. Once completed, they are allowed to blow away into oblivion. Maher Mahran, Egypt's outspoken Population Minister, endorsed the conference for "energizing" governments to face a crucial issue but said he doubted that countries would pay attention to the specifics of the action plan...
...tough, rocky course with sand in places," Pimlott said...