Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...
Screams in the Subway. "Then a heavy bomb crashed through the tunnel roof . . . and a wave of cold air, followed by dust, swept over us. In the distance someone yelled for a doctor. The clamor for help was taken up by many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...
...from a smash six-months tour of European battlefronts in her oldtime hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, cited some play-acting lines which used to leave Broadway cold but panicked her homesick G.I. audiences: 1) "Italy is a greatly overrated country filled with nothing but heaps of rubbish, dust, flies, stenches and beggars"; 2) "I should be more than willing to give up soldiering to take up some money-making business." Leading Man Brian Aherne reported that when he kissed Actress Cornell on stage, one enthusiastic soldier shouted: "Oh, pass it around, mister, pass it around...
Forty-five minutes before H-hour, rocket ships began belching their projectiles against smoking, dust-covered Iwo. When the first landing craft nosed into Futatsune Beach at 9 a.m., the opposition was thin and scattered. The Japs had pulled back from the black-ash beach, but they were calling their shots. In the next two hours, the leathernecks drove inland 600 yards to No. 1 airfield. The farther they went, as the day wore on, the stiffer the opposition...
BRITISH COLUMBIA Joy Ride Raising the dust in barracks and powder rooms last week was a whispered warning: U.S. Coast Guard SPARS are unsafe on Canadian Navy tugs. Behind the warning was a somewhat Rabelaisian, Sunday-afternoon rowdedow in Vancouver Harbor...