Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old counsel, Roy Cohn, had demanded special treatment and numerous petty favors for Draftee Schine. He lashed back with desperate countercharges, e.g., the Army was using Schine as a "hostage" to "blackmail" him and, to take the heat off itself, had offered tips on "dirt" in the other services. Stevens denied the countercharges...
...eastern Colorado thousands of miles of fences are down-pushed over by drifting sand. Mudballs form over the eyes of cattle, and wild geese fall dead with their bills and throats packed with dirt. At Field, N. Mex. (pop. 25), a dust storm halted the funeral of 73-year-old Mrs. Alice Towner, who had walked toward her mailbox in a previous storm, been swallowed by the blinding dust, wandered lost and helpless, and finally died in a nearby pasture. Oklahoma City's Engineer W. W. Baker estimated that one storm last week deposited 185,000 tons of dust...
...damage is already tremendous. Great acreages of winter wheat in the worst dust areas are already ruined-drifted under or simply pulled out of the loose ground by winds. Pasture lands have disappeared under drifting silt or have been spotted with hummocks of tumbleweed and mounded dirt. Ponds have filled, roads have disappeared...
...Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines against contraception. This attitude, he says, "is all the more interesting in view of the fact that it is the children who suffer most . . . When I walk through such regions, where birth rates are at a biological maximum, and I see dirt-encrusted, malnourished, disease-ridden children, I know that this is not the sort of world advocated by the One who said: 'Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...Petersburg, Fla., Outfielder Bobby Thomson of the Milwaukee Braves made a hard and costly slide into second while trying to break up a Yankee double play. His spikes caught in the dirt, his right ankle broke in three places, and Thomson was lost to the Braves for at least two months...