Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other fronts, Jaakko Mikkola's cross country aggregations bit the dust--the Varsity by a 151/2-471/2 score and the Freshmen by 24-31. Henry Lamar's Freshmen saved the Crimson's football face by stopping Exeter 19-0, the Yardlings' first win of the year...
Penicillin dust also worked on other respiratory troubles. In some cases painful sore throats stopped hurting half an hour after the dust hit the spot...
Doctors never get rich by treating silicosis. A poor man's disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath. Silicosis is by no means rare. It causes more than 20% of the "natural deaths" among the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania. In eight hard-coal counties, there are 1,000 new cases a year. But little has been done thus far to check or cure the disease...
...inside the huge, dark loft, and the dust begins to swirl and the ones on the wagon are pitching hay up at you as fast as they can, and you are trying tp stow it back in the loft. In about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins...
...cinemusical purposes, there are plenty of occasions for songs and production numbers, cued in more or less naturally. 'Boys & girls bicycle to a picnic under leafy shade and sing about it en route; Billy De Wolfe sings At the Nickelodeon; Pearl Bailey clears away dishes or flicks a dust rag at a bannister while she chaws out a couple of songs...