Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nelson had a rough evening in general. At 6:55 of the second period, the Crimson's Ron Thomson launched a shot from the point. In the scramble that followed. Beckett notched the Crimson's fifth goal. When the dust cleared, there lay Nelson, flat on his back, with his head in the cage...
...years, ocean racing's most famous trophy, the America's Cup, has been gathering dust in the New York Yacht Club, waiting for a foreign challenger to win it away from the U.S. The British have tried 15 times, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts have cost at least $25 million, and all have failed. Last week another nation threw down a challenge. Along the banks of the Parramatta River, outside Sydney, throngs of excited Australians cheered the launching of a sleekly handsome 12-meter yacht that may give U.S. sailors their sternest test...
...spoilsport Degens was not yet ready for conclusion jumping. After making certain that no more organic material could be extracted from the meteorite powder, he covered his samples with filter paper and let them stand for two weeks. He then boiled them again. From each sample of dust came a fresh assortment of biological chemicals very much like the first. Dr. Degens' conclusion: the dust under the filter paper was reinvaded by ordinary earthly microbes. He is convinced that meteorites analyzed after lying around museums for years are contaminated, too, and offer no proof at all of extra-terrestrial...
...rented a cold-water flat near Manhattan's Bowery for $17 a month, began to paint his vision of city life. Trained as a sculptor, he never bothered with brushes, instead squished thick layers of paint on masonite boards with palette knives, sometimes sprinkling on gold dust to provide added brilliance. Failing to find much spiritual light in Bowery life, he moved to Venice in 1948. There, he would wait, thinking and absorbing, until the last rays of the afternoon sun shimmered across a canal into his studio; only then would he begin to paint. "Sometimes," he says...
What was it like out there! Explain all that to them, to these people who have scarcely ever left their valley; explain the Chinese and the Vietminh, the tall elephant grass of the Haute Region and the paddy-fields of the deltas, the mud and the dust, the fighting, the suffering, the dying, and what he and his kind were striving to find behind all this death...