Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West Germany's coal and employ more than 60,000 miners, fully 17% of the industry's working force. At the Amalie mine in Essen, center of the industrial Ruhr, dust-covered workers were handed "death warrants" as they emerged from the mines, and went off to brood over their beer...
...best Ranger photographs, explained O'Keefe in teh magazine Science, show a region covered by broad, light-colored streaks radiating from the craters Copernicus and Tycho. These rays are believed to be dust and fragments tossed out by teh meteor impacts that blasted the two craters, and since they lie on top of most other lunar features, they are listed among the youngest parts of the moonscape. But O'Keefe also found a conspicuous black mark showing starkly against the lighter background of one of Tycho's rays. The ray had not dusted the mark with light...
...President Johnson won the state over- whelmingly. As a result, moderate Re publicans lost one of the highly touted comers they had depended on to help rebuild a tattered party. >Roger Branigin, 62, a prosperous Indiana corporation and utilities attorney, making his first try for elective office, appeared dust-dry compared with smooth Republican Lieutenant Governor Richard Ristine, 44. But Ristine was at first strongly for Goldwater, then backed away and thereby got the worst of both worlds. Newcomer Bran-igin easily upset Ristine...
Without hiring any outside talent-not even a management consultant to advise him-Burnham got to work on Westinghouse's fat and dust-covered corporate structure. He reshuffled ten top executives into new jobs, split up the centralized chain of command to give everyone more responsibilities, created a president's council in which he and his lieutenants can make decisions without indulging in the long delays and lengthy memos that once characterized Westinghouse. He slashed costs by more than $20 million by getting rid of 3,825 white-collar employees, shaved inventories by $8,000,000 with...
Slowly hope is lost; suddenly grace is given. In the bottom of a barrel sunk in the sand, he finds several inches of clear water. Water in this blazing waste! He is dumbstruck. By what miracle could a common tub draw water out of dust? Day and night he ponders the mystery and its meaning. In the desert he has found water-can it be that in his fate he has found his life? He looks up. The ladder has somehow been left in place. He is free to go, but now he has no desire to depart. Instead...