Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more dead than a whole year's fighting in Viet Nam. And historians will be a long time calculating the price in Arab morale, to say nothing of Russia's tremendous loss of face as it stood helplessly by, watching its expensive Middle Eastern adventure being ground to dust by the advancing Israelis. Among the major Israeli spoils were several captured Russian SAM missiles...
Bowing to the People. Cairo itself went half-mad. Sobbing men ran through the streets like children, wailing "Don't leave us, Abdel Nasser." Women flailed about screaming as if in mourning, scooping up dust and throwing it on their heads. By bus and train, camel and foot, peasants poured into Cairo, inveighing against the "U.S. imperialists" and pleading "Nasser, stay with us!" If, as some intelligence sources indicate, an incipient military coup was in the works against Nasser, the plotters got the message. So did everybody else. Mohieddin announced that he would refuse to take over. Nasser...
...epitaph, she once wryly suggested "Excuse my dust." But she also wrote, in her "Epitaph for a Darling Lady," the sentimental last stanza...
Leave for her a red young rose, go your way, and save your pity; She is happy, for she knows That her dust is very pretty...
After the customary palaver with friendly Indians and hostile white men, the avengers finally descend on the villains' "war wagon," an armor-plated, heavily guarded stage full of gold dust. With the help of the nitroglycerin and a band of Kiowas, the villains are killed, the wagon pillaged-and the loot lost when runaway horses spill barrels of it over the landscape. At film's end, Wayne salvages sacks worth $100,000 -enough, presumably, to keep him going until his next western...