Word: dusting
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...with seemingly effortless kindnesses. Something-a book, a trinket he'd found rummaging in an antique shop-would catch his magpie eye and remind him of someone; days later it would arrive with a letter in his bold flowing hand. He would spend hours covered in clay and oxide dust making ceramic tiles, assembling grand mosaics destined for a friend's winery wall...
...pressing concerns. The army's journey south revealed a landscape of ruin. The tobacco-farm country around Tibnine, a hill town about 10 miles from the Israeli border, is like a slide show of destruction--scorched earth, leveled homes, torched gas stations--shot in a gray scale of cement dust and summer haze. While refugees have flooded back into other areas of Lebanon, only the brave or desperate have returned to these parts, which are still strewed with unexploded bombs, many of them from antipersonnel cluster munitions. "There are thousands of these out there," says a Lebanese military intelligence officer...
Annenberg Hall—the only dining hall open on campus to serve hundreds of summer school students and proctors—was closed this evening because dust generated by the construction in Loker Commons leaked into the food preparation area...
Summer School Dean of Students Christopher S. Queen sent an e-mail to proctors at 4:40 p.m. alerting them to the situation and saying that “the dust must be tested as a precaution to rule out any hazardous substances.” He also asked proctors to go to Annenberg at 5 p.m. to explain the situation to students...
...them from the corner of a house in Beit Yahoun. The tanks were later joined by another Merkava and an armored bulldozer, which brazenly crossed the main road leading into Bint Jbeil, causing consternation to motorists forced to brake to an unexpected halt. Further east, huge clouds of yellow dust rose into the sky as Israeli armored vehicles plowed through the rocky grassland. The Israeli movements were closely observed by Hizballah men, who have foregone their normally unobtrusive presence and are now swarming over all the villages of the south...