Word: dust
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...late getting back. When the catcher dove into first base just a split-second behind Yale pitcher John Janco’s pickoff throw in Saturday’s second game, it certainly seemed that yet another Harvard inning, along with Mann, had gone up in a cloud of dust, one more casualty of the between-game lull that has provoked Harvard coach Joe Walsh to indefinitely ban parent-sponsored potlucks from future doubleheaders...
...Central Europe, the rooms feature jewel-colored silk wall coverings specially made by the prestigious Venetian textile manufacturer Lorenzo Rubelli from original patterns found in the state archives in Budapest; intarsia floors by Joseph Danhauser incorporating eight different kinds of wood; charming Angelika Kaufmann medallions released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski. In the Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper to renew the extravagant wall paneling...
...best league start since his freshman season, Ronz came out firing, holding Princeton hitless through the first three innings. Ronz used a lethally efficient curveball that had several Tigers swinging in the dust. He also knocked down the one ball Princeton hit hard early on—a liner off the bat of second baseman Steve Young—and threw to first to complete the play...
...battle at nearby Afak and one that defines him as a commander. "Go in there as if you own the place," he says later. That sense of supremacy now takes the form of artillery shells that are pounding Iraqi positions. Another TOW missile hits a large building, which sheds dust as if someone had beaten it with a stick...
...soon as possible. Suddenly a middle-aged man in a checked shirt elbows his way in and announces his support for the regime. "If Saddam is going to fall, there are thousands of Saddams to replace him," he declares. Then he reaches down with his hand and smears some dust from the floor with his fingers. "Foreigners are not worthy to step on even a single speck of sand of Iraq." Then the men, who only seconds before had been happily bantering with foreign journalists, suddenly turn hostile and unwelcoming, afraid to be viewed as being friendly with the infidels...