Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcome the language barrier, Gruin took Colin-Ho, his interpreter, along. They got a lift in a Chinese Army C-47, of which Gruin says "The pilot was a cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street...
...Communist drive in Western Germany in a few weeks. Britain and the U.S. are about to publish a list of more than 800 factories to be dismantled for reparations. In their zone the Russians dismantled two years ago, before the Germans had a chance to pick themselves up and dust themselves off. Today there are German political parties, unions and newspapers which can express the almost unanimous German opposition to dismantling...
...dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington) with a kind...
Possible solutions to the evil (if it is an evil) can be conjured up almost at will. A dust-covered fourth serving table apparently lies ready to be rushed into the breach it filled while the Union was in the Navy's hands-but saving a few minutes of waiting time hardly justifies sinking the dining hall's budget into a morass of red ink or filling the Freshmen's only large common room with extra tables. An even more obvious remedy would merely involve extending the Union's serving hours for fifteen or thirty minutes at each meal...
...amateur satirist knows, the hordes of captains, majors, commanders and other brasshats stationed in wartime Washington had other and even more crushing duties than just winning the war. Reams of mimeographed balderdash had to be stamped IMMEDIATE ACTION and provided with desk space on which to gather dust. Rival service arms had to be watched for symptoms of credit-grabbing. Above all, callers with something to offer that might help win the war had to be given The Treatment: identified, badged and tirelessly "channeled" from building to building and service to service till they wound up in despair back...