Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...surrender, and was sweeping northward toward the Danube as the Kaiser heard the fateful words. No Paris street names recall Macedonian victories, no heroes' welcome awaited the returning veterans. Vainly did the Times of London plead that "justice be done to those men who have had the dust and toil, without the laurel of victory." In this masterful and highly readable book, British Historian Alan Palmer sets out to do justice to this unsung campaign. From the first landings of the French and British at Salonika in 1915, the Macedonian theater was treated as an unwanted stepchild...
...square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust jacket to learn that Brown went on to graduate from Howard University, and will enter law school this fall. Instead. Brown sifts steadfastly and self-consciously through the dung heap of his past. A little discipline of the sort that altered the course of Brown's life might also...
...smoothly that they will not know when they are riding over cement or sea. Not that the ship is a veritable magic carpet. The engine makes so much noise that passengers have difficulty carrying on a conversation, and the forced air kicks up so much dust and spray that the visibility through the windows is almost zero. But the engineers are learning fast. Early in the spring, a test Hovercraft capsized while making a high-speed turn, but that has not happened since...
...tires that it has been labeled a fire hazard. Adding to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the pollution. On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo Mayor Chester Kowal slid past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust, and a general rainbow of industrial discharge. The stink was overpowering. "Unbelievable! Disgusting!" he concluded...