Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sand Trap. Troops have no opportunity for randy R. and R. in Saudi cities, but they have found another use for their prophylactics. Soldiers are placing condoms over the muzzles of their machine guns to protect them from airborne sand. In World War II, ground troops sometimes used "French letters" to keep their guns from jamming in the European damp...
...game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly needed to suit up, let alone sand up, as the A's performed what amounted to surgery without anesthesia. At the end, in the champagneless locker room, the satisfied heart of A's manager Tony La Russa could be seen beating beneath a T shirt that promoted The Ballet School. The Bash Brethren had pirouetted through disaster...
...tremors -- each as powerful, some say, as the earthquake that virtually destroyed San Francisco in 1906. The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...
With their ailing captain, Ross Cockrell, struggling not to leave deposits in the sand traps, Harvard's other four players were on their own. Junior Robert Kincaid led the team, shooting 76-80--156 for the two-round, two-day tournament at the par-72 Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst...
Just beyond the truck, a miniature desert tornado forms, funneling sand toward the cloudless sky and scattering garbage as it dances through the camp. "We are not poor people who can live in the desert,"says Mohammed Tahir, 30, who worked for 12 years in Kuwait in an Indian restaurant. "We had jobs and apartments and good lives." Tahir has been in no-man's-land for seven days. As frightened as he was by life in Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, Tahir insists there is no comparison. He says, "I have come to a place that is even worse...