Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerical job. She will report regularly to a parole office in St. Johns and if necessary, assume a new identity. Her ambition in her new life? As she told the board last week, "I'd just like to settle down, get married, have a couple of kids, dust the house, clean the toilet, be just an ordinary little dumpy housewife. That's all I want...
...beautiful grove of cottonwood trees down below, and they were snapped off like matchsticks. Later I could see the water out on the plain. It was almost like a surrealist picture; as the water hit some of the farm fields, you could see an eerie cloud of dust and mist rise up three to five miles away...
...Dust Bowl and Depression. Humphrey dwells fondly, at times movingly, on the Dust Bowl and Depression years that scarred his psyche without crushing his spirit: "I used to see my father, his exuberant spirits momentarily giving in, sitting head in hands, grinding his life away between unpaid bills and unpaid accounts." At seven the future Vice President washed glasses in the family drugstore. At 16 he wept with his parents when they were forced to sell the family home. His political philosophy was soon forged: New Deal, Big Government. "I witnessed," he writes, "how government programs literally rebuilt the territory...
Perelli shrugged. "Well, perhaps Fanfani does exaggerate a bit, and that sort of thing can be counterproductive. But the point is, who forced us to dust off Fanfani and made us go back to such conservative positions? You guys did. We wanted to avoid an early election...
...disease transmitted? Because hemorrhagic fever peaks in May and October, the dry seasons in South-Korea, Lee suspects the virus lives in the droppings of Apodemus agrarius and attacks humans when they stir up dust and inhale virus-laden particles...