Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd was large, and dressed, as Norman Mailer predicted years ago, in the costumes of time past, time present, and time future. Babies and dogs cluttered the dust bowl; both, by city ordinance, must be leashed and curbed...
...grind a metaphor to dust faster than Godard, and in this pacifist fable, he grinds out dozens of familiar antiwar gambits. But this time the man ner enhances the material, and man ages to prove Borges' maxim correct...
...carbon dioxide will prevent heat from escaping into space. They foresee a hotter earth that could melt the polar icecaps, raise oceans as much as 400 ft., and drown many cities. Still other scientists forecast a colder earth (the recent trend) because man is blocking sunlight with ever more dust, smog and jet contrails. The cold promises more rain and hail, even a possible cut in world food. Whatever the theories may be, it is an established fact that three poisons now flood the landscapes: smog, pesticides, nuclear fallout...
Harvard won the Greater Boston Track Championships yesterday with 111 1\2 points--more than twice the 48 1\2 total of second place Northeastern--but the glamor of Harvard's seventh straight Greater Boston crown got lost in the dust of falling records...
...with a walk. After a fly out and a walk to Jim Cox, the M.I.T. pitcher started to crack. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third. Another wild pitch brought Smith hurtling in from third, but the catcher was there to meet him. When the dust cleared. Smith was out. Dorwart singled and again the runners advanced on a wild pitch. With two out and runners on second and third, Harvard's leading batter and shortstop, Jeff Grate, came to bat. He lined the second pitch into deep right field for a single, scoring two runs. Grate...