Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great rains on Dakar and the adjacent Senegalese coast. Then the harmattan (from the French-Arabic for evil) starts to blow from off the scorching Sahara. By November Dakar's lush greenery begins to parch. The sky is so blue that it looks black. Roads are heavy with dust, but passable for military travelers...
...woods and skipped across the oily Cumberland River on the new pontoon bridge. When the mediums came down to cross, puncturing the dark with their exhaust flashes and red signal lights, the shore was lighted for safety's sake, making a 200-yard circle of yellow dust-fog through which turrets poked, each with its pygmy...
...fighters go forth . . . can see his countrymen building with blood, sweat and toil the firm resolution that their sons shall not die under bombs, but shall have peace, because they will know how to preserve peace. ... It is stirring to see this change in attitude. It makes the dust all right, the flies all right, the heat all right...
With even the newest revenue measures falling short of actual war costs, no phase of the nation's accelerated production program can afford to lay itself open to accusations of faulty economy. Already the gap between buying power and consumer goods is of inflationary proportions. Dust on Aiken's charges can clog the war machine...
...next things we longed for and looked after, was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches when our present Ministers shall be in the Dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great Work it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about 1700 pounds) towards the erecting of the Colledge; and all his Library...