Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the dust cloud that shrouded the ruins, an estimated 500 to 700 were dead; 7,000 were homeless. News of other hundreds dead trickled in from villages in the surrounding mountains. Over the course of five days, successive quakes trapped and killed rescue workers trying to dig out survivors from the first disaster. France offered a stethoscope device successfully used in Agadir in March to detect still breathing victims trapped beneath the rubble. The U.S. naval attache in Teheran flew a DC-3 down to the stricken city with emergency supplies and took out survivors. At week...
When a torrential rain turned the crust of dust to gumbo, Brazil's officials gave up and retreated. Back to Rio went Finance Minister Sebastião Paes de Almeida, leaving behind an eight-man outpost. Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto sat in Rio signing documents datelined Brasilia and confidentially told visitors: "Officially, I'm in Brasilia." Of eleven Ministers who originally appeared, eight departed. After a quick ten-minute inaugural session, the Supreme Court recessed to June 30; the Senate, without furniture, recessed to June...
...last weekend, the Sultan of Shot was not the big show. At the Drake Relays, he left Davis in his dust with a throw of 63 ft. 1¼ in., but saw his meet record clipped by Nieder's 63 ft. 11 ½ in. Strangely mellowed by defeat, O'Brien spoke to Nieder for the first time in the day, said: "Nice going, Bill...
...shambles. "I needed five more days to get it ready." wailed Israel Pinheiro, Brasilia's chief builder and first mayor. "But we just could not spare the time." In a last-minute cleanup, Pinheiro put 60,000 men to carting off debris, planting palm trees, scrubbing the red dust off Architect Oscar Niemeyer's graceful buildings. In a single day. 2,000 steel light poles were planted; overnight 722 homes were painted white...
...Author Sandoz reconstructs the story from old diaries and memoirs, Cozad-man and town-prospered despite plagues of hungry insects, through dust storms and snowstorms, despite rampaging long-horn herds and quick-trigger cowprods. By 1882 he had harvested a fortune of $300,000, and raised two spunky sons. But black-tempered John Cozad was too powerful for his own good-and power tends to corrupt those who lack, as well as those who wield it. Settler jealousy festered into hatred. When Cozad, in patent self-defense, gunned down a knife-flashing enemy, he had to skip town to avoid...