Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will soon work part time in nearby factories to learn a trade. Each child must also learn to drive a car-and repair it. Every Friday comes "hygiene day," when all must pass personal inspection of clothes and quarters, and each dormitory also has a logbook for daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students get one day off a week (Sunday), and all must then clear the premises, visit relatives or friends. The reason (to prevent loneliness) illustrates the logic with which shrewd Principal Alexander Andreyevich Petrov runs the place...
...have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family's fortunes hit rock bottom, finally worked his way through school as a part-time janitor and drugstore clerk), and a witness of the dust storms that scourged South Dakota in the 1930s, Humphrey became an ardent advocate of Franklin Roosevelt. Phi Beta Kappa Humphrey wrote his master's thesis at Louisiana State University on The Philosophy of the New Deal...
...thorough. Collier's "the day that" formula has by now become wearily familiar. His dense, sludgy prose oozes little of the night's blood, sweat and tears, pays only stiff upper lip service to London's assorted heroes; most of them seem as anonymous as the dust that clogged their lungs...
...eighty day "cooling off period" over, The Wall Street Journal parodies The Lampoon, which never recovers. At a Pre-Reunion meeting, angry alumni hire the Harvard Band for a march on Leverett Towers. The group parades around the structures seven times, shouts "Veritas" causing the building to crumble into dust. Premier Khrushchev announces, "We will bury you on the 27th, and this time we mean it." Eisenhower announces a State Department reading period assignment of "What You Should Know About Communism" in preparation. At noon on the 27th, the sun stands still...