Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
...good wheat, and another bumper crop. Nature had been kind, but she had first tried men's nerves. There had been winter drought, even several dire days of dust storms. Then soaking rains and an abnormally warm March had sprouted the green shoots in a hurry (TIME, April 22). Then there was another dry spell and again the blessed rains, just in time...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...
...Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
...islands that had been a naturalists' paradise became in war a sunset home for soldiers & sailors. For the G.I., Seymour (smallest of the 16 islands of consequence, 990 miles southwest of the Panama Canal) was The Rock-the never-never land of igneous boulders and shifting red dust, the U.S. Army's beachhead on the moon...