Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...county. In Farmville, classes fill the pews of Beulah A.M.E. Church and the First Baptist Church. In Levi, the teachers swept the broken glass out of an abandoned schoolhouse and set up shop. In Hampden-Sydney, they teach in a fly-swept Sunday school with chickens scratching in the dust outside. And the kids, some of them walking three miles, have flocked to school in such numbers that teachers had to cut off enrollment...
...might be possible to conceal a space test by means of a large amount of lead dust dispersed in space between the test and the earth, but this maneuver would be extremely expensive and far from dependable. Tests done behind the moon would not be dependably secret either; they would be revealed by delayed gamma rays from radioactive debris spreading from behind the moon's small shelter. A test on the far side of the sun might possibly escape notice for a while, but its cost, the time it would take to get in place, and its undependability would...
...Macedonia swayed from side to side before tumbling its 180 bedrooms and their occupants into the street. The girls began running and bumped into terrified people pouring half-dressed from the houses. Showered by broken glass, dodging falling roof tiles, they were choked and blinded by a cloud of dust. When it cleared, they saw the airport bus half-submerged in debris...
Cries in the Ruins. Despite the disorder, Pilot Blagojevic's plane took off for Belgrade on schedule, with the stewardess wearing a bed sheet because she had lost all her clothes. Below him Blagojevic could see the red eyes of kindling fires shining through the dust cloud hanging over the city, but at least he could no longer hear the cries of the injured trapped in the ruins...
...buyers are families earning less than $10,000 a year. Though central air conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately by each tenant...