Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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December lived up to its Swazi name: "the time to pick teeth for a harvest." The veld lay parched in the midsummer sun. Hillsides and grasslands rotted rustily. Scorching winds raised dust from the river beds. By January even the mighty Orange had shrunk to a feeble trickle. A throttling drought gripped South Africa...
...land of Nippon dust and slime are piled...
...rescue crews began taking in telephone wire, timbers, chemicals and rock dust for extinguishing fires. As night passed, the people standing beside bonfires outside began to understand how slowly the terrible work was going. As the new day dawned, a rumor ran wildly through the crowd: 31 men had been found, all dead. It was denied, but believed-for the fight seemed hopeless...
...these novels much too funny to be taken seriously. But in 1930, Waugh astonished London's literati by becoming a Roman Catholic. He crowned his conversion with a most unfunny biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, and with his most glacially sardonic novel, A Handful of Dust (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934), a satire on aimless decay and aimless viciousness in the patriciate. Later came Put Out More Flags, a hilariously mordant comedy about Britain's Wrorld War II bureaucrats and racketeers...
...spread; in the dust his whole head...