Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prairie. The Dust Bowl. The Tennessee Valley. Huey Long. Bob LaFollette. Woody Guthrie. All the images of an earthy, deep-rooted populism are evoked in Fred Harris' pungent, often spellbinding speeches. The best orator among the declared candidates, Harris, 45, is running a "people's campaign" against "privilege." The Oklahoman logged 6,300 miles on a cross-country trek in a 24-foot camper last summer, cooking over an open fire, speaking to any small group that would listen (and often the groups were very small indeed). He hopes to ride this camper-style politics to the White...
When you first arrive in the dusty Nile delta village of El Bahu, you get the feeling that the people there have made almost no progress since Pharaonic times in the struggle against poverty, ignorance and disease. Mudbrick, flat-topped houses sit in an island of dust in a sea of green fields. The village is bordered on two sides by a tiny canal that is shaded by weeping willows, but the water is gray with filth and refuse. Dressed in knee-length tunics and pantaloons, the women of the village squat at the canal's edge...
...carpet of dust of El Bahu's one street, a skinny crone pats into bricks a mass of inky black, slimy mud mixed with straw, the same kind of building material used in Moses' time. The old woman's husband, Hammouda Hamed, tills his two acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving...
...prompted her descent from a sewing-machine factory into the depths of Freeman United Coal Mining Co.'s Orient 6 mine at Waltonville, Ill. For her $42.75 daily trainee's pay, double her former earnings, Miner Miller works the coal belt, builds support partitions and sprays rock dust to prevent fires from coal fumes. Co-worker Mary Siefert, 38, a divorced mother of three who was the first woman on the job last August, says she was not trying to prove anything: "I had no choice; I needed the money desperately." She is "not a liberationist whatsoever...
...Idea that 3000 leigues, and the vast ocean now devide us--but devide only our persons for the Heart of my Friend is in the Bosom of his partner. More than half a score years has so rivetted it there, that the Fabrick which contains it must crumble into Dust, e'er the particles can be separated...