Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left behind, and the G.I.s, equipped with silencer-mounted .38 pistols, pursued them through the labyrinth. After exploring the maze for 1,000 yds., the tunnel rats came up and turned the task over to units that pumped nausea gas through the system, then set about blasting it to dust...
...present, after all, is a ghost of less substance than the unmelting snows that mantle his youth. "The snow is real," he writes, imagining some long-ago blizzard, "and as I bend to it and scoop up a handful, 60 years crumble to glittering frost-dust between my fingers...
...England's most controversial economist," as the dust jacket correctly bills Thomas Balogh, believes that the world is a ticking time bomb. Rich nations are getting richer while poor nations are getting poorer-and unless the trend is radically reversed, warns the author, all the colored races will embrace Chinese-style totalitarianism. His thesis is well-worn and his stark pessimism is questionable, but the problem of widening inequalities is all too real and urgent...
...labels to brand people all over the sky and earth, blows at my body, an imperial decree imposed on my head and the rebukes of a certain senior general piercing my ears. Are there any more secret weapons? Bring them all out together. The universe is cleared of all dust. If you do not believe, please wipe your eyes...
...fired, thereupon performed a minor miracle by leading his Redbirds to a National League pennant and a World Series victory over the American League's New York Yankees, after which the losers gleefully hired him away at $45,000 per, a triumph of justice that swiftly turned to dust when the disintegrating Yanks finished sixth in 1965, plummeted to last at the start of 1966 and the New York management summarily fired Keane; of a heart attack; in Houston. The Yanks, let it be remembered, still finished last...