Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large head, suffered from arthritis, and died between the ages of 55 and 60, "probably of 'heart failure.' The ruggedness of the remains," says Goff, "indicates a muscular, vigorous male." The man also limped, had probably been wounded. When Goff found a lead ball in the bone dust, he set out to prove that Columbus had been wounded. In Madrid he verified a letter written by Columbus dated July 7, 1503 that said. "The seas were so high that my wound opened itself afresh...
...annual report in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also gave the Corps a tilling in spots. Speaking of "pride," he deplored the noncommissioned officer "whose uniform looks like it belonged to someone who retired...
...ripe old age of 19, I had, as did many other young American G.I.s, the expense-paid tour of Britain, France and Germany. The one thing that has always stuck in my memory is the way the industrious Germans began to rebuild their homes and factories while the dust of their destruction was not yet settled. Let's give the Germans and Minister Strauss the nuclear warheads and the choice of when to use them. The Russians would not be so foolish as to provoke a conflict with a strong military and economic alliance of the U.S. and Germany...
...dust jacket of Greek Gods and Heroes suggests that the work is for teenagers, and a child of 14 or 15 could read the book without loss of dignity. Graves has too much sense to condescend. But the book, which is pleasantly illustrated by Dimitris Davis, is simply enough written to be read by an intelligent parent to an intelligent eight-year-old. Graves lets his readers see the Olympians as the more sophisticated Greeks saw them-beings more than mortal, but no more than human. He explains, for instance, that the sea god Poseidon "hated to be less important...
...chance that these gases came from the atmosphere, the ocean or surface rocks, but if they can be proved to have come from the virgin lava itself, they may contribute valuable evidence about the formation of the earth. One theory holds that the earth was formed quickly out of dust particles and that it kept hot enough while growing to drive all gases out of its interior. A rival theory is that the earth grew slowly and kept fairly cool, trapping much gas in its insides. Only after radioactivity had heated and melted the deep-down rocks did the gases...