Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sydoodle through the air like a knuckleball, fluttering and dropping as much as 18 in.-at 100-plus m.p.h. For the hapless goalie, says Toronto Maple Leaf Coach Punch Imlach, fielding these unguided missiles is "like standing up at the plate while a baseball pitcher without control throws dust-off pitches at your head...
Mulligan's greatest strengths are, in fact, in his honest exploitation of the inglorious West. The stagecoach is a jerry-built, rickety job; the dust storms saturate the sky until there is no room to breathe; the silences and empty spaces reduce men to infinite specks. In perhaps the most daring reversal of stereotypes, Mulligan has cast an actual Apache boy (Noland Clay) as Salvage's son. Clay, 11, offers no Hollywood charm, no cloying cuteness, not even a single smile. Even W. C. Fields would have liked...
...head, like a wound in the middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain. From the neck up, she's 80." To Actor Roddy McDowall, "trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles." Her conversation is clotted with such words as amulets, transcendentalism, Utopia?and then, unexpectedly but inevitably, a choice selection of four-letter expletives. Only when Mia uses them, her friends feel, somehow she makes them sound like an incantation...
...week in Charleston, W. Va., it was an occasion for passing collection plates, singing protest songs and heaping scorn on mine operators. The miners, some of whom wore black arm bands inscribed with skull and crossbones, were demonstrating for protection against "black lung," a disease caused by inhaling coal dust that can lead to illness or death. A form of pneumoconiosis estimated to affect three-fourths of the nation's 135,000 coal workers, black lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than old-fashioned picks and shovels...
Goats' Bladders. The industrial safety problem goes back to prehistoric man, who not only cut himself with axes while skinning bison but developed fatal anthrax from contact with the animal's hide. Roman metal workers wore face masks made from goats' bladders to protect themselves from dust and lead fumes. Recent technological advances have brought new hazards faster than old ones have been controlled. Manufacturers have long since stopped using mercury in the production of men's hats, thus eliminating the "hatter's shakes" disease that may well have accounted for the peculiar behavior...