Word: dust
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...place against which chalk is ground. A producer of dust...
...DUST In his last days in office, George Bush laid a few land mines for Bill Clinton, such as sending troops to Somalia and bombing Iraq only days before Clinton's Inauguration. Returning the favor with a raft of last-minute appointments, pardons and Executive Orders that thumb a nose at George W.'s Administration, Clinton...
...jazz was born out of a fierce challenge to the abiding shame of American racism. If that means looking back longer than looking forward, then that's the way it should be, and that's the way Burns and Ward let it play out. Besides, with Armstrong playing Star Dust, or Young taking a solo, or Holiday singing Strange Fruit, the weight of history goes airborne. Jazz becomes, like the title of that Holiday classic, fine and mellow...
...There are not many Hail Mary passes in Congress. There are an awful lot of three-year-passes in a cloud of dust," Duberstein said...
...case, when other justices were scrupulously referred to as "Your Honor," Quince was at one point addressed as "Ma'am.') Harry Lee Anstead, who is white, was raised by a single mother in a housing project. R. Fred Lewis, a native of West Virginia, keeps a dish of coal dust on his desk to remind him of his family's coal-mining origins. Barbara J. Pariente, who is Jewish, was raised in an affluent New Jersey suburb by parents who did not attend college. "Although I had the benefits of my father working very hard," she once said, "I understood...