Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls back home; for themselves, they bought shirts, shorts and ties-in any color, curiously, except red. A surprising haul was made by Wellington's druggists, for the Red sailors swept the shelves bare of laxatives, and even bought up patent medicine that had been gathering dust for years. At week's end the Russians went back to their ships laden like housewives returning from a bargain sale, and the fleet steamed out, headed for Odessa and home...
Ever since May 1957, the bill to grant statehood to Alaska has been gathering dust in a House Rules Committee pigeonhole personally guarded by Rules Chairman Howard Smith. Virginia Democrat Smith opposes the bill, at least partly because Alaska would probably send a pro-civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another...
...monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total fine: $2,050), they took off. shed their landing gear for better flying. The 4,500-mile trip took nearly two days, ended with a dust-raising belly landing in Wenatchee, Wash...
...Exchange Commission) tries to preserve law and order and to protect the widows' and orphans' stock. Each side ropes and brands countless stray cattle (small stockholders) before the big roundup (the proxy count). At "High Noon" (the annual stockholders' meeting) somebody has to bite the dust...
Stars are formed by condensation out of clouds of gas and dust. There are many different kinds in the galaxy. Most of them are spinning rapidly, but about 10% of them rotate slowly like the sun, which turns only once in about 28 days. Dr. Struve believes that when such stars were formed, a small amount of material was left outside the main body. It gathered into planets whose rapid orbital circling took away from the star most of its energy of rotation. So any star that rotates slowly, says Dr. Struve, is likely to have a brood of planets...