Just a few miles from the slide which spurt Rob Wishon into a wave of sand is Pacheco Elementary School, a charter school in the college community of San Luis Obispo california specializing in a two way immersion program.

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Dealing with the Bruins was a different matter, though, and the depth and talent of Boston's four forward lines, coming at the Rangers' defensemen and Lundqvist in wave after wave, ground them into sand over the five games.

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Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.

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Sand bar: accretionary deposit of sand formed across a river mouth or bay by wave action and joined to the shore at both ends.

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Cantering loosely down sand-covered roads sighting down a sine-wave of bonnet, lazy, dusty oppositelock applied at speeds rarely above a brisk trotting pace and the smell: scorched dirt, cooking tarmac, a whiff of hot oil, burning chrome and heat.

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Spit: accretionary deposit of sand or stones located where a shoreline changes direction, formed by wave action and joined to the shore at one end only.

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