Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college education, traveled over the countryside helping his father vaccinate hogs, crammed through a six-month pharmacy course in Denver (his pharmacist's license still hangs over the counter in the Humphrey drugstore). Somehow the Humphreys and their drugstore survived. Then on Armistice Day. 1932, the first dust storm hit Huron. Humphrey was hunting pheasants at the time, remembers it vividly: "The sun was blacked out and all you could see was a little shining disk. I didn't know what it was; it looked like a terrible smoke cloud. Debris - thistles and tumbleweeds - came before the storm...
...Gospel & a Prophet. In Huron, disaster piled on disaster. The dust was followed by tornadoes of grasshoppers that ate the paint off the houses; the wells ran dry and the trees died. Another winter of the Great Depression settled on the world, and Hubert Humphrey listened on his radio to the hopeful words from Washington. His fundamentalist liberalism, inherited from his father, found a gospel in the New Deal, a prophet in Roosevelt. Humphrey longed to get into politics...
...first rockfall had come 24 hours earlier, a cave-in far up No. 10's main tunnel. Everybody got out in time. When the dust settled, the miners went back in to clear the rubble with no particular fear, for ledoma (earthquake) is a commonplace to the natives who work the Rand and Free State mines. But then, without warning, the wall along the coal seam collapsed with a roar, and a gale-force gust of wind tossed men, machinery and pit props like feathers in its wake. Ventilation fans were smashed and behind the mile-long debris most...
...oceans. Manned by Jacques Piccard, son of the bathyscaph's inventor, Auguste Piccard, and Lieut. Don Walsh, the Trieste took 4 hr. 48 min. to settle slowly down to the Pacific Ocean's bottom, landing gently on soft silt that billowed up and looked like dust clouds when the lights were turned on. When the clouds cleared, Piccard and Walsh could see living creatures that moved unbothered by the pressure of more than eight tons per sq. in. The depth was 37,800 ft., which is 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high, and half a mile...
...earth's. Lederberg suggests equipping an interplanetary probe with a sort of artificial anteater that will stick out a tongue of transparent tape, touch it to the planet's soil, and draw it back again for study by a built-in microscope. The enlarged pictures of dust particles could be transmitted to the earth by radio, should tell whether the soil has exo-organisms...