Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tune to play. Nasser's radio hurled charges of murder, suggesting that King Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass his country, had chosen death...
...bears trying to get at each other. Let us pull out of this bear garden. Let us act as mediators between these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration...
...more alarming. We are facing a panorama of disaster.'' Appeals for economic help stream in from the provinces, but no one in Leopoldville can be found to sign the necessary papers; a list of Congolese students approved by the U.N. for study in European medical schools gathered dust because the authorizing office was empty...
...conclusion, may I propose that reluctant 'tastemakers' like me and those like you who exaggerate the power of 'tastemakers' both ponder Aesop's fable of two flies who, perched upon the axletree of a chariot, complacently remarked to each other: 'What a dust we do raise...
...films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...