Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still Richard Roud, the program director, was hard put to fill his two-week schedule. To solve his problem Roud admitted vintage flics that should certainly have been left under dust, such as Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March...
...Northeast, but game ducks have long been more parched than people. For five years the great prairies of the central U.S. and Canada have had subnormal rainfall-not bad enough to bother humans but plenty bad for ducks. Thousands of breeding marshes and potholes turned to mud, then dust. That meant that for every 100 ducks that flew north to breed in the spring, only 80 came back through U.S. flyways in the fall. Hatchings were a little better this year but still far below normal times when 170 ducks return south for every 100 that migrate to breeding grounds...
...horseshoe-shaped line of well-fortified Indian positions. Recoilless rifles, mounted on jeeps or dug into ground emplacements, poured a heavy fire into the massed Pakistani tanks. Support fire rained down from Indian 3.7 howitzers. With the temperature in the 100s, the buttoned-down tanks were like ovens; the dust clouds raised by the explosions blinded the tankers, which milled about like a frightened herd...
...fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied 2-2 in the ninth, Willie Mays slashed a grounder straight between the legs of Houston First Baseman Walt Bond. Never slowing down, Mays rounded first, streaked for second, and slid in safely amid a cloud of dust. Moments later, Willie McCovey slapped a single to right, and Mays scampered home with the run that gave the Giants their 13th straight victory, boosted their National League lead to 31 games. In the club house afterwards, Manager Franks smiled benignly. "Who knows?" he said. "Some day I may start thinking...
Shimmering Dust. The major theater of war is the broad Punjab plain, which stretches flat from horizon to horizon. It is lushly green, dotted with clumps of trees, laced by canals. The days are swelteringly hot, and dust clouds shimmer in the glaring sun. It is Rudyard Kipling country, immortalized in such books as Kim and Indian Tales. And the soldiers on both sides are very like the men Kipling so deeply revered. The officers are British-trained, and many are graduates of Sandhurst. They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted...