Word: dust
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...What could have happened? Those who have been suddenly lost, or seized, report later that their greatest fear was that no one would know what had happened to them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed, joins an archaeological expedition to Brazil; the expedition falls apart, and the Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family...
TIME.com: As the dust settles following President Bush's visit to Europe, what is the outlook for the deployment of a missile defense system...
...oddball history books that eschew the grand and the momentous in favor of the small, the prosaic and the overlooked. Recently we've seen or will soon see histories of, among other things, salt, the ostrich, New York City sewage, flattery and not one but two books about dust. But don't wait for them to show up as answers on Jeopardy; here's a quick survey of some of these trivial pursuits...
...NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT Dust did in the dinos and suffocated the Pompeiians; today its industrial version can kill. But without it? No earth. The planet, the author writes, is melted dust...
...your watch by it. Every time power shifts in Washington, Republicans and Democrats pat each other's backs after the dust settles with promises to be more bipartisan in conducting the public's business. And within a month they're back to partisan fighting...