Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experienced and hefty Harvard scrum dominated B.C.'s forwards, raising clouds of dust as it marched en masse toward the goal time and time again...
...present City Manager, James Leo Sullivan, has also failed to initiate any action around this issue. No Civil Service hearings have been held. No departmental Internal Affairs hearings have been convened within the police force. The Liacos Report gathers dust and all four officers remain in good standing on the Force...
Roth likes his characters anyway because they don't realize this yet: the crumbling castle still conceals a beautiful secret. Even the paltriest character is at least a little more than a little heap of dust. And each can count on having this recognized, if not entirely by his social superiors, at least by the members of his own class...
that countless suns shimmer in the Milky Way, each with planets of its own. So that one is, oneself, a paltry individual, if not, to speak quite bluntly, nothing but a little heap of dust...
...peasants run untamed. But the peasant who serves as his son's body-servant can still desert and go back home. If the army catches him it will hang him, but the rest of his village won't given him away, and no bombardier will reduce them both to dust without ever seeing either. "In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died," Roth begins a long paragraph, one of the best in the translation...