Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threats. Only in Alabama was the usual segregationist tirade heard. There, incoming Governor George C. Wallace, 43, who has pledged to "stand in the schoolhouse door" if necessary to prevent integration, cried: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Wearing two sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation...
...people elect the House. But the House elects the all-important Rules Committee. And last week, as old opponents began to dust off their parliamentary weapons, it seemed certain that the 88th Congress would begin the same way the 87th did-with a battle royal over the makeup of the Rules Committee...
...started a year ago, when a group of San Diego flyers were on their way back from a vacation in Baja California, the long, arid Mexican peninsula that runs 800 miles south of the California border. A sudden dust storm forced their light plane down at El Rosario, a poverty-stricken fishing village of 600 people near the Pacific Coast. The Mexicans gave the stranded flyers shelter-which was all they had to give. The grateful Americans returned a few weeks later with food, clothing and toys. Dr. Dale Hoyt took his medical bag along. Hearing that there...
Those were the days when football was a ground game-four yards and a choking cloud of dust. Lambeau's Packers played it like basketball. ''Other teams passed in desperation. We threw on first down," he recalls. But nobody complained. Lambeau. after all, was the coach as well as the ace passer, and besides. the Packers almost always won. In 1921, looking for new worlds to conquer. Lambeau and his friends recklessly spent $50 for a franchise in the embryo National Football League (today's cost, including players: $550.000). and in 1929 the Packers won their...
...recommended that buyers interested in doorstops consider the color scheme of the room which contains the door to be stopped. Samples: SHAKESPEARE: TEN GREAT PLAYS (502 pp.; Golden Press; $12.95) has a pinkish grey dust jacket, suitable for pinkish grey rooms. Why, however, print only ten of Shakespeare's plays? And why lard them out with puerile illustrations? The answer, possibly, is so that the publisher can charge $12.95 for literature in the public domain...