Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite prepared for what is coming to me," said Altrincham as the storm broke about his head. "I can only hope that when the dust has cleared, the furniture will have shifted a bit." As the week wore on, the letters pouring into his own mailbox gradually turned favorable to Altrincham by a ratio of three to one. Letters to the working-class Daily Mirror were four to one in his favor, and even the middle-class Daily Mail, which at first received a rush of what-a-cad letters, found the mail turning more evenly to the lord...
...small powers-Albania and Egypt -started the last of all wars, but the big powers finished it. A-bombs H-bombs, massive cobalt bombs obliterated the industrial cities of East and West. The winds carried radioactive dust to hamlet and farm, from Scandinavian fiord to Pacific island. A vast silence fell over the Northern Hemisphere. And now the dust is coming south, covering the earth as uniformly as a bandage wrapped with slow deliberation around an orange. Scientists estimate that it will take about nine months to envelop the Southern Hemisphere from the equator to the pole. Then the earth...
...Dust & Fireflies. Dick Russell's roots lie deeply and inextricably in the long-lost dream of the Old South. He was born in Winder (rhymes with binder), 46 miles northeast of Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink...
Tosca and Butterfly (both conducted by Erich Leinsdorf) were recorded on alternate days, and between them they required more than 40 hours of taped singing. Inside the opera house, the red plush boxes were empty, dust covers lined the balustrades. A 62-piece orchestra was spread over the stripped main floor, and a 30-voice chorus was onstage. The principals stood at the music stand in bright cotton prints or sports shirts and slacks. In the control foyer Music Director Richard Mohr and the technicians hunched over the controls...
...piece buys a skyway ride to Fantasyland, reposing behind" Sleeping Beauty's moated castle, where still another ride whisks visitors over a make-believe London, Never-Never Land and Captain Hook's Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily over waters alive with birchbark...