Word: dust
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...poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After all, “We are dust and to dust return/ in the end we’re / neither air, nor fire, nor water,/ just dirt…and maybe, some yellow flowers...
...million facility is now used as a depot for a handful of vehicles. The compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find...
...spacecraft first detects the comet when it?s still 60 days away. The ship begins refining its aim, studying the comet?s rotation and ambient dust...
...broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that they say could jeopardize the independence of more than a dozen regulatory agencies ranging from the Federal Communications Commission to the Federal Reserve Board. "Independent agencies would bite the dust," warns Stanford University Law Professor Gerald Gunther. When Administration Lawyer Fried tried to assure the court last week that such arguments were simply a scare tactic, he got a quick reply from Justice O'Connor. "Mr. Fried," she said, "I'll confess you scared...
...offer grim handshakes and go home. The original purpose of the meeting--to set a date for a full-scale summit in the U.S. and work out a frame work for an agreement on medium-range missiles that could serve as its centerpiece--was lost in the dust. No deal, no date, no plans for future summits...