Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singer of the University of Maryland, would be to explode a nuclear charge on the lunar surface. It would make a visible flash, and although its crater would probably be too small to be seen with the biggest telescopes, it might toss up a vast amount of fine lunar dust. If the explosion took place on a dark part of the moon near the edge of the lighted area, some of the dust would be thrown into sunlight, making a conspicuous bright patch that could be photographed...
Geneen rattled the structure of Raytheon so completely that the dust has just started to settle. He found "a $200 million operation with management enough to run only a $20 million company," a history of cases in which Raytheon developed and marketed a product only to lose out when hit by competition. To solve such problems, Geneen brought 32 executives into new management spots, reorganized the company into seven divisions, set a controller over each to exercise searching financial control...
Just as the wheat farmers and cattlemen in the old dust-bowl area saw success ahead with lots of rain, big crops and good prices, along-as always-came something else. Last week, in millions of waving green acres of western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and extending north into Nebraska and south into the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, the something else was the promise of the worst grasshopper plague in 20 years...
...authors of New England's First Fruits had written: "One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust...
...nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust for 30 years before he came up with a modest gold strike, but instead of in vesting it in "pan ginney," he put his faith in Alaska and bought real estate in Fairbanks...