Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...Dwight Cook watched the 20-foot waves pound in from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs. . . . Corpses froze and could not be drawn from the sheets,. .. It was commonly supposed that the great increase of rocks in Derbyshire was due to . . . the solidification of unfortunate wayfarers...
...millions of people.* But in the current issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart, was perhaps no better than a sneak thief loitering around a primitive...
...places." As a grown-up scholar, he lives in solitude, utterly shut off from the world by the tomes of his magnificent library, wholly dedicated to pedantry. One sad day, this sexless, infantile genius decides to marry his housekeeper, because she is the only person he can trust to dust his books...