Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the dust had settled the big clock showed two minutes to go, and the score was Connecticut 75, Harvard 61. It was all over, as they say, but the shouting...
Because the dust has not yet settled on the affair, it is still possible to hope that Bowles will continue to influence the policies of the Kennedy government, that his special reports will be read more intently than other special reports; and that the gentlemen of the New Frontier will continue to believe its faded slogans as much as Bowles does...
...fundamental delusion that a virus is the principal cause of colds, everyday experience notwithstanding. The fact is that a common cold is due to an overwhelming, generalized vasodilation of the body's capillaries, brought on by a combination of factors such as exposure, overeating, oversleeping, alcohol, viruses, dust, frustration. Thus the typical candidate for a common cold is a man who on Saturday night ate a big dinner, followed by several alcoholic drinks, then took a hot shower, overslept in the morning, and got into an argument with his wife about cleaning out a dusty closet...
...passing years are like dust...
...figures at Asia House-whether gods, or dancing girls, or Buddha himself-are masterpieces of impassiveness, each face a study in noble calm. The people of Khmer built temple after temple, until they literally exhausted themselves; their kings fought other kings until "the dust of their armies blotted out the sun." But the faces of the gods never changed expression. Their gentle, enigmatic smile was always there, the smile of perfection and of eternal peace...