Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...
...Greece and Turkey (see The Presidency). But the national mood was one of resignation and apathy rather than enthusiasm. Muttered a Chicago commuter: "More sand down the rat hole." Said an ex-soldier, now a student at the University of Oklahoma: "Well, I told my wife to dust off my uniform...
With baseball, track, and hour exams offering stiff competition, upwards of three-score spring football candidates kicked up the dust in Briggs Cage for two hours yesterday afternoon in the College's first preview of next fall's pigskin parade...
There it is. Gromyko is not talking about procedural technicalities, although he still tosses around glittering dust in the form of proposals to "outlaw" The Bomb (a la Kellogg-Briand...
...miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...