Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Country. Director-Producer William Wyler's return to the Old West is no less triumphant because it is frankly epic in scope, and Burl Ives acts with the strength of ten as an up-from-the-dust rancher; with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker (TIME, Sept...
Across the prairie wheatfields, tractor headlights flickered through the night, and the clank of combines filled the still air. As farmers raced to beat late summer hailstorms, a harvest that defied drought, dust storms and the dire predictions of experts was moving in a golden stream last week to Canada's bins and elevators. The new wheat crop, estimated at 340 million bu., will probably be the smallest in four years -down sharply from 1956-57's huge 573.1 million bu. But it is so much better than anyone thought possible in early summer that many a wheat...
Clouds of Dust. A miracle it was not. It was a triumph of technology over nature. For the second straight year, the prairie earth was made to yield more moisture than it received. An almost snowless winter gave way to an arid spring; by June topsoil began to blow in a grim reminder of the Dirty Thirties. "Every time there was a sprinkle." said a Moose Jaw farmer, "I'd go out and kick the soil. All I got was a cloud of dust...
...broadcasts from Syria) railed at King Hussein and his men: "The Jordanian people will reply to you with ropes; they will hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing!" Baghdad Radio tried to spread infection to Iran with a Persian-language broadcast: "Dear compatriots, shake off the dust of humiliation and misery. Today all freedom-loving peoples have revolted against imperialism." Radio Cairo wooed the Sudan; the "Voice of Free Lebanon" (which uses the same Syrian transmitter and wave length as the Jordan People's Radio) called anew for the removal of "crazy" President Chamoun, and threatened...
Residenztheater," said Rococo Theater Expert Dr. Giinther Schone, director of Munich's Theater Museum. "I am afraid that the new gold leaf will shine too brightly and the walls will lack dust, the patina of age." But after two years of detailed restoration, the interior of Munich's rococo Residenztheater last week looked very much like the original-right down to the patina...