Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the AEC stood still, military staffs and armchair strategists toyed (that seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought he was a U.S. spy. The British had denied...
Occasionally, drink got the best of the funmakers, and a posada ended in a free-for-all with the palo. A few practical jokers filled their piñatas with charcoal dust which exploded in the guests' faces. The usual sequel to such unseemly horseplay was a Mexican Donnybrook or "Rosario de Amozoc...
Neither Luini nor Baldovinetti was aware of the fact, but while they painted, the astronomer Copernicus was calmly pulling the earth out from under their studios. Even in the Renaissance, a scattering of prophets such as Savonarola kept repeating that man is mere dust; but never before Copernicus did anyone suspect what out-of-the-way dust man was. When Copernicus squeezed the world into a ball and set it spinning through the blackness of outer space, he did much to destroy the importance of man in art as well as in the universe...
...distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half-sad drollery. They are the working cowhands that Williams knew as a rancher ("when I was healthy an' didn't have this big belly...