Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgescus set out on what they believed would be a short business trip to New York. They were not molested for three years. But in 1950 their grandfather was carried off by the police. Ten months later the boys and their grandmother were put under house arrest in a dirt-floored, one-room hovel in a distant town...
...Ignacio Guerra, a local rancher and amateur archeologist, he struggled up the remote Infernillo (Little Hell) Canyon and at last reached two caves in its vertical sides. The floor of the first was covered with four feet of dustlike material that he recognized at once as archeological pay dirt. It was chiefly the dried-up remains of millenniums of human occupancy...
Later, before 50,000 dirt farmers gathered in convention in Rome, Scelba said: "The Communists, from their point of view, are right to oppose EDC, because every act which tends to make our democracy stronger only makes more improbable their dream of world domination . . . The Reds say EDC menaces peace. It is not true. They tried to convince the Italian people that the Atlantic pact would provoke war. But behold, five years have passed and . . . war is further away than ever. Why, even Russia has formally asked to join the Atlantic pact . . . We have learned a lot about the Communists...
Monotonous. That's what it is, monotonous. When balmy April breezes blow dirt around the infield and stir the fervor of the fan, then the would-be pundit seeks an original prediction to shock and startle his readers. But every spring that same breeze seems to flutter the pennant flags over New York and Brooklyn and the resigned scribe reluctantly picks the two old warhorses at either end of the BMT subway line...
...your March 22 "Flight to the Suburbs": if some people were lucky enough to be able to flee from the city with its dirt, noise, industry and screaming advertisements, it is sad that industry should be allowed to pursue them and intrude upon their hard-won right to privacy. An eternal cycle results, and families will have to begin anew the futile flight to territory not yet infested by industry. The rapid spreading of factories and stores through residential areas horrifies me and many other people who want to breathe fresh air in their free time...