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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ganges especially is the river of India, beloved of her people . . . running into the present and flowing on to the great ocean of the future." The remainder of his ashes, according to Nehru's wish, will be scattered from an airplane "so that they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: After Nehru | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

When a government patrol was attacked by spearmen at the village of Lubarika, the troops fled, leaving their commanding officer skewered in the dust. As the panic-stricken patrol sped north, government soldiers along the way were infected with their fear, and news of the "massacre" spread. By early last week, there were no Congolese soldiers left in the Kivu capital of Bukavu, and the rebels threatened to take the entire province, once the coffee-producing pride of Belgian white settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: With Magic Juice & Lucky Grass | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Way Out to Play | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Hordes of 52-ton tanks churned up choking waves of orange dust over California's Mojave Desert. Oil-drum devices released mushroom clouds to simulate atomic attack. In the 105° heat, smoke generators threw up acrid screens. Fighter-bombers singed the sand with the blast of their afterburners. The normally green Colorado River turned brown with machine-swirled mud, black with slicks of oil. Helicopters chattered, machine guns clattered and men swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Non-War Is Hell | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Douglas DC-8 jetliner and flew high over Canada during last summer's eclipse, Drs. Guglielmo Righini of Italy and Armin J. Deutsch of the U.S. counted on snapping some of the clearest pictures yet of the sun's glowing corona. But up there above the dust, water vapor and other difficulties of the earth's atmosphere, the two astronomers told the Florence meeting of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), they found far more than they expected. Their pictures of the sun's spectrum showed a strange line that had not been predicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: What Makes the Shadows Hot | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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