Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antwerp was taken from the Germans virtually intact. But now almost half the city's buildings have vanished in rubble and dust. Most of those that still stand are askew on their foundations, with walls leaning and cracked. In all the city there is not a window pane left; boards cover the gaping apertures of buildings where people still live and work...
With Meiktila gone, Mandalay had lost military importance, but the Japs fought last week as though it were a Shinto shrine. In 130-degree heat, in swirls of white dust, dashing, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) General Thomas Wynford Rees led his turbaned Punjabis into the city from the north. From the west came another Allied force. Mandalay's defenders were trapped...
...three American colleges reportedly were used to stoke furnaces. Not all the destruction was deliberately aimed at books, but the results were the same. In England, the contents of at least 50 libraries, plus some 6,000,000 books in stalls and publishing houses, have been bombed into dust...
...Shrapnel hits our building and we duck for cover while great clouds of black smoke and red dust rise like thunderheads and slowly thin away...
...General was still around on D-plus-twelve, he must have seen something to pack his belly with anguish: a huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...