Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated that the annual fall of soot within a radius of 40 miles from New York City might be as high as 384,000 tons a year. And what disturbed New Yorkers most of all was a new test which showed they sucked in about 185,000 particles of dirt at every breath, including large draughts of such unpleasant byproducts as arsenic, carbon monoxide and chlorine from the city's spewing factory chimneys...
Lucia di Lammermoor: "Her brother done her dirt, and she went nuts on E flat above high...
...sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved a herd of 25,000 sheep into Kansas to fatten them up on leased wheatfields. By such tricks he managed to cut his costs enough to weather the depression. Later, he bought 1,800 acres dirt cheap in Colorado, cleaned up when prices rose by selling all but the 280 acres he needed for raising cattle...
...Balance Wheel was plainly intended to be read as a political-economic allegory. Veteran Caldwell fans may ignore such implications, and read the book for the same reason they listen to soap opera: to get the dirt, dished by an expert, on a dozen or more private lives...
...with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...