Word: sands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Psousennes joined his General, and then the main tomb, too, was sealed. Outside, history marched past; the splendid city of Tanis fell into ruin; sand drifted over the tomb, and hid it. It lay undisturbed by wars and warriors-Assyrians, Macedonians, Roman legions, the cavalry of the Mamelukes, the sweating, roaring British truck drivers of World...
...secret chamber General Unjebanenjebet slept on. A new war raged in Africa. Professor Montet, his funds cut off by the German invaders, returned to defeated France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
Long before the Bowditch men finish their work, Seabees will build six 75-ft. steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
After watching some 50 shivering steel pickets march through the slush, Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from higher up. The company knows it's not our fault...