Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curtain Lines. The mayor and the aldermen sided with Earl. He himself scuffled his cowboy boots in the dust, spat through tobacco-stained teeth and stayed on the job. So far he has only collected $9 in fines, but he has no intention of quitting his flashlight-and-pistol technique, or his job. "They threatened to kill me Saturday night," he drawls. "At least three times they've tried to run me over when I was on foot. I'll tell you, the only way I'm going to leave is if the town fires...
...half of Los Angeles and several bedroom valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against the most publicized name in Oregon politics...
...found his text readily understandable even when I had no prior knowledge of the play exampled. (He quotes generously throughout.) The volume is physically well-produced and its usefulness is enhanced by three indexes: playwrights and plays, subjects, critics and commentators. The book's success is such that the dust-jacket description of it as "an ideal introduction to the art of the theatre" is not a puff...
...binding together a bundle of twigs. Stooped over this broom, the lowly outcast daily sweeps India's streets and village squares, its courtyards and bedrooms. Not only does this lead to agonizing backaches, spinal curvature and a characteristic cringing posture, but also years of inhaling the clouds of dust stirred up contribute to an alarming pulmonary tuberculosis rate. Yet generations of foreign travelers, "asking why India's sweepers do not use a stand-up broom with a handle, have invariably been answered with a shrug: "It's cheaper to hire another sweeper when the old one dies...
...Bunker. Soon after arriving in New Delhi three years ago, she noticed that even when she was in another part of the embassy with the doors closed, she began coughing when an embassy servant began sweeping. She reasoned that the sweeper himself must be inhaling a lethal quantity of dust-and could not be doing a very good cleaning job besides. Grabbing a long-handled, American-made broom, the ambassador's wife showed the sweeper how to use it so that the dust, instead of flying into the air, stayed in a tidy pile. Then, discovering that such brooms...