Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads of U.S. paratroopers roared down onto the soccer field in their choppers, kicking up clouds of dust. The combat-equipped men hit the dry field running, then flopped prone into defensive positions, their rifles ready. Ahead of them, youths of the small seaside town of Gouyave, on Grenada's west coast, sat watching from a bridge railing. They broke into loud applause. So, too, did local women at the sides of the field. The American troops, who had been searching for armed Cuban or Grenadian holdouts in the little war that was over, had been given...
...were counted last week, there seemed to be something for everyone. Black and female candidates were high-profile winners in every section of the country. At the same time, in voting on scores of statewide and municipal propositions, the electorate seemed inclined toward common sense. Most important, when the dust settled, it did seem that more often than not, votes were cast based on candidates' qualifications rather than their race, sex or personal life...
Nearer to earth, IRAS identified at least five new comets and spotted a "miniplanet" only 1.2 miles in diameter, possibly the cadaver of a comet, circling within the orbit of the innermost planet, Mercury. IRAS also uncovered some bands of fine dust spread over 100 million miles in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The dust may be the debris of collisions between asteroids...
...added. "We've had incidents where everything is taped up and there is a small crack somewhere and bang!--a professor's room of cultures is full of contaminating dust...
...with the team was a letter from Pike explaining that he would see what kind of shape the players were in by making them run four miles and swim two on the first day of practice. "I practically sprinted the whole first four miles and left everybody in the dust," he recalls. "Assistant Coach Peter Lansbury yelled, 'Wow, did you see Yifter run?' in reference to the Ethiopian sprinter Miruts Yifter who won the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics that summer. He is a small, dark-complexioned guy, too. to this day half the people I know...