Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia's best, he was ushered into a small operating room without proper aseptic precautions. Two "quite serious" cancer operations were under way, and Hall counted 43 persons clustered around. Some were perched on stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon...
...reasons that they do not under stand, the amount of cosmic dust that falls on the earth - now about 2,000 tons daily - has trebled in the past 750 years. They have discovered that ice and snow accumulations during the Viking age (9th and 10th centuries) vary little from the present and that 1776 was an unusually warm year...
...Negro youngsters who showed up, lashing out at boys and girls alike. By noon, the rabble outside had grown to 400. Cheered on by their womenfolk, Grenada's vigilantes savagely attacked terrified Negro children as they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure...
...Jenny, worked his way across the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1910 to watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop-dusting...
...Simple Morality." For all the star dust, the political issues were hardening. Reagan of late has scored the Governor for failure to curb "runaway crime," claims that the state's welfare system gives able-bodied workers "pay for play," and last week rapped Brown's handling of troubles at the University of California as "appeasement of campus malcontents and filthy-speech advocates." The overriding issue, says Reagan, is "simple morality...