Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against Carter. Ford listened and smiled. One man present, an old college friend of Ford's from the Big Ten, recalled the words of Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes: "Three yards and a cloud of dust-the way to win football games." If Ford finally wins in November, the friend thought, that is the way he will...
...generally cold, damp weather that prevailed from around 1600 to 1850. British Climatologist Hubert Lamb believes the change is cyclical, occurring every 200 years or so. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and many others blame the earth's cooling on an increase of dust particles in the atmosphere; the particles act like tiny mirrors, reflecting back some of the sunlight sinking the atmosphere and depriving the earth's surface of solar heat...
Sakers and Slush Lamps. Atmosphere is another Sabatini attraction. From a mind crammed with historical minutiae he fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout...
...which leads to speculation about Herbert. The dust jacket states cryptically that he is an exnewspaperman, and shows a large bearded man smiling rather disdainfully at the camera. One hopes that Herbert will quit the pop anthropology of Children of Dune with its pretentious Carlos-Castaneda-like musings for the more insightful style that marked the first book, and chalk up Children of Dune as a book that paid for the groceries...
...just left a Japanese college (Korea was then part of the Japanese empire). He started a tiny rice-cleaning plant in the sleepy southern city of Masan. Noting that all his competitors made deliveries by slow ox carts, Lee bought a truck -and soon left the competition in his dust, he recalls, "howling blue murder...