Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage illustrates Mr. Caldwell's peculiar virtuosity. The incongruity between the horrible matter and the prattling manner results in a slightly ludicrous effect which is deliberately aimed at. This is ingenious, but is scarcely makes the book all that its dust jacket says that it is. The book will no doubt sell very well, but for quite other reasons...
Southwestern Nebraska is a country full of weather. In the winter it freezes, in the summer, fries. Its gulch-pocked plateaus are the scene of alternate blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, dust storms, cloudbursts. Every once in a while a Nebraskan loses his patience, goes outside to shake his fist at God. Last week there was cause aplenty for fist-shaking...
...black mob swarmed into Roan Antelope's mine compound at Luanshya, wrecked it, turned to the company offices, demolished them, swarmed toward the power house. The white police advanced. An officer gave the command to fire. The corpses of six kinky-polled blacks were left behind in the dust after their fellows had stampeded away. When 300 of the survivors had been thrown into jail, the rest went back to the mines. The white men went out for a round of golf on courses with giant anthills for bunkers...
Because the grass strips in the Yard were beginning to resemble a dust-stormed Kansas prairie and the imminence of Commencement Day makes a tidy appearance essential, the Maintenance Department has called in outside aid. A team of four men do the work. Two, with the assistance of a five-ton truck and a pneumatic drill, place row after row of three-inch-deep holes, spaced a foot apart in the grass. The other two follow, filling the holes with plant food and replacing the divots...
...mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections are usually designed for the C-man, acting as a ball-and-chain on the student fitted to go on at a brisker pace and leaving in a hopeless cloud of academic dust the E-man who cannot possibly keep up the pace...