Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, however, political liberalization has been slow and erratic. Most of the old restrictive laws are still on the books, and although they are sel dom enforced, the regime can dust them off at its pleasure, and does. Three years ago, Spanish Communist Julián Grimau was executed under the 1941 Law for the Suppression of Masonry and Communism, which supposedly had been repealed...
...time. And it is al ways changing. Try as I may, it never looks the same to me. So how can I finish?" He became the slave of his own changing perceptions. At times, in pursuit of a likeness, he carved the plaster until it disintegrated into dust between his fingers; at other times he focused only on a foot until it grew to monumental proportions...
...Franquemont, wrestling 152 for Harvard, kept John Boyd watching the ceiling for most of the match, scoring two predicaments and two near-falls. When the dust cleared, Franquemont had drubbed Boyd by a grotesque 15-2 total...
...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...start of last week, no fewer than 13 major-college teams still had unblemished season records. By the time the dust cleared, only two were unbeaten: No. 5-ranked Kentucky and unranked Texas Western. Brigham Young had had every reason to feel tall before the Quaker City Tournament in Philadelphia: with three men 6 ft. 11 in. on the team, and a 6-0 record that included a 103-83 thrashing of Philadelphia's own St. Joseph's, the Cougars had climbed all the way to No. 3 in the ratings. Imagine their surprise when they lost...