Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet intelligence organization, had defected to the West. He has reportedly been sequestered somewhere in the U.S. for the past six weeks, undergoing debriefing by the CIA. Reagan Administration officials said that Yurchenko has provided details of KGB operations in Europe and the U.S. and information about the "spy dust" that Soviet secret police allegedly used to track Americans in Moscow. He has also fingered as many as six former CIA agents who worked as "moles" for the Soviet Union. Some of them apparently quit the agency in the past few months and fled to Moscow. The CIA has denied...
...recent disappearance remains unresolved. Vladimir Alexandrov, a prominent Soviet physicist, vanished without a trace while visiting Madrid late last March. Alexandrov originated the mathematical model for the nuclear winter theory, which holds that the smoke and dust hurled into the atmosphere by a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would block the sun's rays for weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh...
...that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here...
...band swung into all the old sad songs about mamma, lost loves and the perils of strong drink. The crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop-time fashion...
...talismans of beauty. Images of India, crossroads of the exotic East, have lingered in the Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions, A Passage to India and The Jewel in the Crown. These are echoes of an era when Third World nations did not proclaim their right to be like their colonizers but were romantically, reassuringly different...