Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of continuity or perhaps a misplaced compassion, Ford was very tardy in ejecting the Nixon holdovers, some of whom had nothing to add to the White House except mischief. His closest aide, Robert Hartmann, openly quarreled with Nixon's lingering Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The dust did not settle until Haig was shipped off to Europe as commander of NATO forces...
...Asian cropland into the sea. Poor countries are destroying their share of their environment too: woodcutters are stripping India of its forests; herders in the Subsahara are helping the desert spread; careless farmers in Pakistan are washing away their best soil and its covering, parlaying their land into a dust bowl...
...atmospheric scientists at NASA'S Langley Research Center think that they have found the cause of the heavenly pyrotechnics. Writing in Applied Optics, Physicists Michael McCormick and William Fuller Jr. report that their surveys of the stratosphere with laser beams have revealed two new layers of dust at altitudes of 10 and 12.5 miles. That extra dust would enhance a well-known phenomenon: when the sun is low in the sky, its rays travel through more of the atmosphere and thus encounter more dust particles. The particles, in turn, tend to scatter the blue (or shorter) wave lengths...
...when he throws in all of the devices of classical rhetoric, from alliteration to auxesis, he has left linguistics somewhere back in the dust. His claim that every note in the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony can be derived from the first two bars is unassailable, but it is also vacuous. With all of the "transformations" at his disposal he could just as easily derive all of Western music from those same two bars...
...seconds the four giant engines roared, blasting clouds of dust into the cold desert air. Then the snow-white aircraft sped down the runway and made a graceful ascent to 10,000 ft. over Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. When it landed 90 minutes later, its first flight test was considered nearly perfect. "It equaled our predictions in every way," said Pilot Charles Bock...