Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jaakko Mikkola will dust off his stop watch for the first time this fall and get down to what is instead of what seems with the running of the annual University Handicap this afternoon. The first group of runners will bounce away from the starting line outside Newell Boat House promptly at 3:30 o'clock...
...Dust. In Monza, Palmiro Togliatti threatened revolution. Speaking while a red setting sun shone through the reddish dust stirred up by a crowd of more than 500,000 workers, the Communist leader attacked the U.S. and the De Gasperi Government...
This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
...band and the long columns of troops swung in review, the dust rose over the parade ground at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...
...British learned something last week about the durability of Nazi military engineering. They set off 50,000 pounds of TNT in order to obliterate a huge concrete flak tower in Berlin's Tiergarten. When the smoke and dust had cleared, the structure merely bulged slightly; it had only been chipped...