Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene could have been played in Dante's nethermost pit. The sun-or perhaps it was the moon-whirled like a ball of molten lead above a bil lowing grey dust cloud that made any hour seem torrid twilight. An ear-numbing cacophony of whines, snarls, splashes, roars and curses engulfed the 35,000 laborers who went about their tasks...
...ALBUQUERQUE PLEASE) can still be seen, express ways and police are driving the custom out of style. But in Europe, the autostop, as hitchhiking is known in internationalese, is a thriving student institution. In universities across the Continent, and on many U.S. campuses too, college kids are about to dust off knapsacks and take to the open Autobahnen, routes nationales, carreteras and autostrade...
...copy and banner headlines, the Times even looks and sounds like an anachronism. Its patient reader must plod through the frontpage classified ads, the sporting section, the Appointments and Situations columns, the parliamentary reports and the dry-as-dust Law Reports before reaching the Bill Page, which is the Times's Victorian name for the news...
Writing, says David Cornwell, 32, who authored The Spy Who Came in from the Cold under the pen name of John Le Carré, "is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie." For all that, Cornwell-Le Carré has seen too many mud pies that are the only pies some people have. And to combat such poverty, he proposes "a scheme called 'Write for Life.' " The idea is to get well-known writers to donate their royalties from a specific new book to a fund that...
...Strong prefers not to decide whether the presence of water vapor means that the dense Venusian clouds are made of water droplets like the earth's clouds or whether they are dust or hydrocarbons, as some authorities think. "I have now come to the end of my competence," he says, "but my personal opinion is that it does imply water." Further deductions are even more iffy, but Dr. Strong suspects that free oxygen may exist along with carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere. If so, it probably comes from water molecules that are broken into hydrogen and oxygen...