Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little by little the sky was darkened by the mixing dust, and the wind felt over the earth, loosened the dust, and carried it away . . . The finest dust did not settle back to earth now, but disappeared into the darkening sky . . . The corn fought the wind with its weakened leaves until the roots were freed by the prying wind and then each stalk settled wearily sideways toward the earth...
...meticulously-naturalistic chunks of narrative within which Naipaul describes this island, Roche's message is borne out. The only way to capture this world is to record the numberless pink hazes, scorched and wrinkled hills, red blankets of bauxite dust, and even the stained bedsheets--all changing from moment to moment. And by tirelessly splashing his colors upon human beings, too, Naipaul smears identities in a way that drives home the ambiguity of this place. A British white woman has a color not at all like that "of local white people"; when Peter Roche grins, his pleasant demeanor is destroyed...
...alive. They had identified almost all of Bayh's hard-core supporters and managed to draw them to the polls through persistent telephone canvassing. But because they had underestimated the turnout, that 10 per cent turned into a disastrous 5 per cent, and Bayh's campaign bit the dust...
...LENGTHY BATTLE of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold a union-forming election in the Medical Area should soon be over. Already, much of the dust kicked up during the year-long dispute has settled; as the rhetoric and mutual recriminations die down, both sides patiently await the National Labor Relations Board's initial decision on whether it will accept the case on appeal. Union officials are privately pessimistic about their chances to obtain even a hearing from the Washington board. Despite what they claim is overwhelming sentiment in favor of a Med area union...
Sylvia Gallagher, a shop steward for the College dining halls, said "gunny-sack" uniforms and hair nets are collecting dust in closets because workers prefer to purchase their own, better-quality apparel...