Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army with a terrible silence-the silence of death. For Warsaw was one vast black mound of wreckage, above which ravaged buildings still stood like lightning-blasted trees. Two sieges (by the Germans and the Russians) and the fierce uprising of the Polish underground had reduced the city to dust and ashes. A few half-starved people crawled out of the rubble. With bony fingers they pointed the way to huge ditches dug by the Germans in Warsaw's heart-the mass graves that entombed many of the city's inhabitants...
...Christopher Morley he founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924. Benet won the National Play-wrighting Award for his play, "Day's End," produced in 1939, and in 1942 he earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His recently published work includes "American Ballads" and the narrative poem, "The Dust Which...
...week long a cloud-part frost, part smoke, part dust-hung over the agony of Budapest. From the heights of Buda, Red Army soldiers occasionally saw the spires of a cathedral swim out of the cloud's dark folds, stand in the clear for a few moments, disappear again. For miles around, the snow was black with soot from the cloud. In the heart of the town a grim struggle raged through the days & nights, block by block, brick by brick. As the battle neared its 15th day, the Russians had won more than...
...Medical Association, Army Lieuts. David C. Levinson and John Gibbs and Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph T. Beardwood Jr. reported six pneumonia cases definitely traced to pigeons-two had handled the birds and four lived in neighborhoods where they would easily breathe particles from the birds' excreta in dust...
...Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...