Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pine-hemmed camp site overlooking northern California's Lake Shasta was cool and quiet, and the C. V. Cadwalla-ders, camped out there, had nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking...
...born the son of a tough coal prospector in Brazil, Ind., who tested the quality of coal by biting into the ore. When Jimmy was four, John Hoffa died with a coating of coal dust on his lungs. Viola Riddle Hoffa, mother of two girls and two boys, was as tough as her husband. Says Jimmy's brother Bill: "She was always telling us, and she made us listen, that Dad always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told...
...does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy cleaning (a cleaning woman comes in twice a week), will not climb ladders to wash the outside of windows (an off-duty fireman or cop does it for 50? a window) ; an upstairs maid does not dust downstairs; a downstairs maid will not clean upstairs...
...hundred of Ba Cut's old followers. The Devil King ordered them to let their beards grow down to their navels, administered an oath during which the newcomers drank one another's blood mixed with rice wine. The peasants' terror increased when red rains (caused by dust particles in the atmosphere) fell in their villages, told each other frantically that the end of the world was coming and that only the Devil King and his Flying Men would escape...
...midday sun sears her still form, lying quietly in the dust. She is herself a fallen bridge between mankind's sundered parts. For a moment, before the small arms shatter the brief truce, Helga Reinbeck's silence is louder than all the guns...