Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faithful copy of the Edinburgh original. The Golden Bee in Colorado Springs' Broadmoor Hotel is not a copy; it's the real thing-a 150-year-old English pub that had been dismantled and shipped to New York, where the hotel's decorators found it gathering dust in a warehouse...
Reduce it to a fragrant dust...
Walker is invited to be Visiting Writer at Benedict Arnold University, located somewhere east of the Rockies, where some of the freshmen can hardly write their names in the dust with a stick, and where Scrabble, wife-swapping and Red-baiting are the faculty pursuits. With its Disneyland-cum-Mies architecture, a preposterous president, freakish faculty, oafish student body and a Neanderthal athletic program (the coach, accused of bribery, is demoted to full professor), Benedict Arnold seems to offer Walker an escape from the inconsequence and stuffiness of his existence. By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint...
...King together preside over a land that, for all its advantages, is not without problems. By far the most troublesome region is the northeast, along the porous Mekong River frontier with Laos. There, nearly a third of the kingdom's subjects live in a swirl of powdery red dust. Ethnically and linguistically more closely related to the Lao than the central Thai, the northeasterners scratch out a subsistence living from the cracked earth, supplementing their diets of rice and rotten fish with such regional delicacies as eels, ant eggs, fried cicadas and fresh cucumbers served in a dark...
...turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using continuously welded track...