Word: sand
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days last week a pale yellow cloud rode a 70-mile gale across the southern Great Plains. In western Kansas, high-blowing sands blurred the sun and built ripply dunes along the east-west highways. In parts of Oklahoma the swirling dust cut visibility to half a mile. Winds in northern Texas sawed the sandy earth out from between dead cotton stocks, scooped fine topsoil from dry fields where winter wheat had failed to sprout because of long draught. Even in Dallas, 300 miles away, darkness came an hour early and sand sifted under windows and doors. Those who remembered...
...last January, the weary, ragged prospectors stopped where the Avequí River cuts over the mountain's edge. One of the men tossed a few shovels of river sand on his suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...
Other miners soon arrived-a couple, then thirty, then hundreds. By last week 1,300 men and 200 women were placermining on the Avequí, or in the Uriman, as the surrounding area is called. Diving deep to scoop up the sparkling sand, miners-male & female-wore few clothes or none. Diamonds were the one & only concern during the daylight hours...
...circumstances were unfortunate, all right. Until the last minute, neither the navigator nor the operations officer had sounded a warning as the Mo steamed on toward the sand flats at 15 knots, 10 to 15 degrees off course, past plain landmarks ashore. No one had asked the Fathometer operator for a sounding; the radar plotter had never sent his shoalwater reports to the bridge. When the executive officer tried to send a message from the main navigation bridge four decks below, the enlisted "talker" was unable to find anyone to listen...
McInnis later stated his policy of ever looking no candidates who turn out for his teams. He called to mind how the great Walter Johnson had nearly been passed up by big league scouts because he was an obscure sand-letter...