Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thanks, mountain!" says the grizzled old prospector played by Walter Huston, in the 1948 movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, after he and his young partners erase evidence of their digging before heading back to civilization, burros laden with gold dust...
...hour she has finished sewing the rectangle of fabric that will become a thick, ruff-like collar that supports the back of the model’s neck. At 5 p.m., Hays sets down her partially-finished pieces and breaks out the lint roller. A layer of white dust, the remnants of the sacrificial teddy bear, covers everything in the room. The design must be clean so it can be fitted to the model, who is soon to arrive. Hays and her model arrive at the Sanctum in the nick of time, the latter looking like an alien from...
...there is something strange about all this heat and division. As the dust rises and the opinions, concurrences and dissents pile up, the court turns its attention to ever smaller cases related to ever narrower points of law. There is, it seems, an inverse relationship between the passions expressed in judicial writings and the import of the cases that inspire them. In the midst of these battles, no one seems to have noticed that the stakes have diminished. This trend--a steady shrinking of the judicial role in public policy and a handing over of issues to the states...
...climb back aboard their Humvees and roll slowly back through the town, which has already emptied save for donkeys and dogs and trash. Winding through the dust along the river bank toward their base, the soldiers pass through several Iraqi police checkpoints and then through one more where three young men had earlier stood wearing civilian clothes and carrying Kalashnikovs - the newest local squad of concerned citizens. "Wave and smile if you see 'em, guys," Vansandt tells his men. "They're on our side...
Fielding a mostly freshman squad, the men’s and women’s cross country teams ran strong through the heat and dust in Saturday’s New England Cross Country Championships held at Franklin Park in Boston. The standout performer for Harvard was senior Christopher Green, who finished sixth overall in the men’s race, leading the men’s squad to a 17th-place finish. In the women’s race, freshman Meghan Houser took 41st place, with the Crimson women finishing 17th as well. Both teams had to fight through...