Word: dust-storm
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...what can mundane writings, like personal notes on "a violent dust-storm" in the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1938, or the purple color of ripe olives at a Moroccan market tell us about the man who brought us the chilling phrases Big Brother, newspeak and doublethink...
...border itself was mayhem. The Pakistanis had sealed off their side that day, and we pulled up just as a crowd of smugglers, Afghan refugees, horse cart drivers, and tractors loaded with children and chickens burst across the line. It was a medieval dust-storm of clattering hooves, curses, and women in long burqa veils were running, stumbling, across the border clutching their screaming kids. Then the smugglers started throwing rocks at the police. And the police started throwing them back. Then shots were fired. The horses reared, bucking their carts, but they were whipped on by their Drivers...
...could be happier than Gunnoe that Briggs Cage has finally undergone its much-needed renovation. He remembers practice in the dust-storm atmosphere of the old Briggs as "awful, gruesome, grisly." Lacrosse had the 9 p.m. practice slot for one month before heading south on its spring trip. Preseason's highlight was getting out on the Business School field the day before the trip...
...dust-bowl town of Pampa, Texas, where Woody is earning just enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power...
Again the theory of AAA has been struck by another mighty blow, the recent Western dust-storm. So serious is the situation that the AAA was forced yesterday to give up completely its stubbornly cherished wheat reduction program. Although the government will continue to pay farmers for crop reduction, the clause providing for limitation will not be enforced...