Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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bosses, pollinating them with a potent dust: support Forbes in 1957 or Forbes will fight you in a harmony-smashing primary. Last week, with nearly all Republican factions blooming for him, scrappy Malcolm Forbes, 37, easily walked away with the nomination, immediately set about handshaking and orating his way towards November...
...temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such as power diodes and capacitors, some as small as a grain of wheat, it opened up a vast new field of miniature components for better machines. Made out of solid materials, the new components were less susceptible to heat, dust and vibration, had but a fraction of the weight and bulk of old-fashioned tubes. Equally important, science also learned to replace the familiar maze of soldered wires with new printed and etched circuits as flat as playing cards...
...beyond the last of the planets, wandering molecules of methane, water or ammonia tend to stick together as solids. Gradually snowflakes of a sort form. Attracting one another feebly over millions or billions of years, they gather into sizable bodies of solidified gas peppered with grains of sand or dust. They may get to be several miles in diameter...
...plunge toward the center of the solar system is a wild adventure. As a comet approaches the sun, its surface is warmed by the strengthening sunlight. Layer after layer, the ices turn into gas. Soon the nucleus is surrounded by a rapidly growing cloud, of gas and dust boiled out of the solid nucleus. This cloud, the comet's head, may be many thousands of miles in diameter. It is so transparent that stars show through it plainly...
...dust athwart the woods to flame...