Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riding on it. Wingtip to wingtip they howled down the straightaway at less than 25-ft. altitude, stood shuddering on one wing in vertical, 7-G turns around the pylons. On the back stretch of the second lap, Slovak had the lead. Then they disappeared into a dust cloud. When they blasted through, Love was in front. Averaging 388.81 m.p.h., he gradually pulled away by two miles-but it was only a moral victory. Second place in the heat was all Slovak needed to nail down the winner's check...
While the giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...
This does not mean that they do not exist. There is good evidence, says Brown, that when such visible stars condensed out of primitive gas and dust, many smaller bodies were also formed at the same time. Seven invisible objects somewhat bigger than Jupiter have already been detected by the wobbling motion that they cause in the stars around which they revolve. Dr. Brown estimates that 10,000 cubic parsecs of space contain 12,730 invisible bodies with sizes ranging from one-sixth the mass of the sun down to "earth equivalent"-the mass that the earth would have...
...Dust. But if Herzog is an emotional deadbeat, other characters have plenty of chutzpah. Herzog's wife Madeleine is the perfect man killer with her cold, carnivorous smile, her facial tic and gnawed nails; she strips Herzog of his bank account during the day, ridicules him into impotence at night; after meals she is in the habit of applying her lipstick while gazing at her reflection in a knife blade. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is an ex-disk jockey who loves to "yuk it up" with intellectuals, gives Herzog fatherly lectures on how to get along with his wife...
...rusting skeleton of an auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...