Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed a place to brush the ferrous red dust off my jeans and shake the rumble of buses and trains out of my head. So I had a notion to wind up my travels through Greece and Yugoslavia at the village of Peania, outside Athens, where my grandmother lives. She had never made it as far as America and I felt pretty sure she would want to hear about what separated us. It wasn't like old times anymore, though: my grandmother had lapsed into a make-believe world, delicately and, to an outsider, bafflingly crocheted from frayed borders...
...their way awkwardly to the front, their arms loaded down with plain, dirty earth rocks. Upon reaching the front of the hall they drop the rocks on the floor before the experts. There is a resounding crash. A shocked silence descends over the room as clouds of common earth dust rise into...
...CHINA'S ENEMIES. The revisionist leading clique of the Soviet Union and all the other leading cliques of renegades and scabs of various shades are mere dust heaps while you [the Albanian Communist Party] are a lofty mountain, tower to the skies. They are slaves and accomplices of imperialism . . . The U.S. imperialists and all other such harmful insects have already created their own gravediggers; the day of their burial cannot...
...more recent times, the price of government subsidization included requirements that more than 50% of the repertory be French and that French singers be given priority. So mediocre did the Paris Opera become that former Enfant Terrible Pierre Boulez was led to say that it was "full of dust and dung...
When Mount Pelee suddenly erupted on the Caribbean island of Martinique on May 8, 1902, a huge cloud of steam and volcanic dust killed 30,000 people, leaving a solitary prisoner in an underground dungeon as the only survivor. So when the long-dormant La Soufriere volcano on nearby Guadeloupe, a French territory, recently began rumbling and belching ash and gases, authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of more than 72,000 residents from towns and villages in the vicinity of the 4,812-ft. volcano. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich flew to the island and ventured up to the crater...