Word: dusting
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...again, in slow motion, will long remember the sight of that dark shadow speeding toward the tower, disappearing as it collided, then emerging as a giant fireball from the opposite side. We will long remember watching the collapse of the World Trade Center and the sight of the giant dust cloud that arose above lower Manhattan—towering buildings reduced to giant piles of burning rubble. And in response to these premeditated, murderous acts of mass destruction, American intelligence and the American military must respond immediately by securing this country and its people from any further threats and retaliating...
...narrow stairways, and the running bodies who could only hope to escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked in the dust of the wreckage, running north through the streets of Manhattan; endless lines of donors waiting to give blood...
...time, we will clear away dust and rubble, and rebuild our fallen structures of concrete and steel. But to honor the men and women whose lives will never be rebuilt, it is the duty of the American people to have courage, and to make the fight against terror a part of our national will...
...stood there completely stunned. After a few seconds, the revolving door began to turn and a single man entered, covered from head to foot with concrete dust. For a second, it seemed he had just walked in from a blizzard—only this blizzard was comprised entirely of dust...
...minutes later, the door began to revolve again. In came an older black woman, who like the man before her, was completely covered in dust. I took a bottle of water from the store in the lobby and gave...