Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUIT Harvard seven years ago after completing my freshman year to become a fashion model I did so to escape the entire mental process. The monumental intellectual confidence which I'd towed into the Yard at the beginning of Freshman Week had flaked chipped and then crumbled to dust during the following months Rejection from a freshman seminar encounters with disdainful professors mindboggling conversations with Presidential scholars along with the first C-plus of my life had the combined effect of linking thinking and misery together in my mind...
...setback after he had leaped into contention at a showdown in Senator Alan Cranston's home state of California. In the candidates' division of the Calaveras County Jumping Frog contest, Hart's frog surprised pundits by leaving the rest of the pack in the dust...
...land-scaping the Central area of the Square, widening sidewalks, setting up modern art displays, and planting trees where no green life existed before. But until the expected completion date of late 1984, denizens must continue to battle heavily congested traffic, limited pedestrian space, as well as noise and dust pollution...
...others it has raised the specter of an environmental calamity. Explains Steve Meyer, executive vice president of the Montana association of conservation districts: "When you remove the vegetation on rangelands, you're depleting a resource. If steps aren't taken, we face the possibility of another Dust Bowl...
...northern Great Plains, such legislation cannot come soon enough. Edith Phillips, 71, of Weld County, is suing Sodbuster Thomas for $150,000 because of waves of dirt that she claims are blowing off his plowed acreage and onto her homestead. Says she: "There's nothing but dust out there. You can't breathe." Admonishes Bill Brown, a Montana rancher: "The Government shouldn't be subsidizing bad farming practices...