Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frye travelled through Southern Persia on muleback, going on hunch and making inquires all the way. Droughts and blinding dust storms slowed his passage...
Tacho's Managua, unlike the Costa Rican capital of San José, did not receive the commissioners with flower-strewn streets. ("We are the accused. It wouldn't look right.") There was, in fact, enough brown Managua dust on the streets to get in any investigator's eyes...
...sure what Chambers meant. When Chambers arrived, he reminded Levine of the envelope. Together they went to Levine's mother's house at 260 Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, where Levine had hidden the envelope on top of an unused dumbwaiter shaft. Levine testified that Chambers blew the dust off the envelope, opened it, glanced at the contents and exclaimed: "Holy cow! I didn't think this still existed." Chambers then took the envelope back to his Maryland farm...
...books on the shooting war itself was General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe, a lucid account of Allied strategy, written in serviceable Service English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines' War and Professor...
...novel about New Orleans--what was it? which I liked very much." She picked up the phone and smiled with anticipation. As I walked down the dark hallway, past the still inquisitive chambermaid, I could hear Helen Mand Cam in process of accepting another invitation to speak. No dust will settle while she's about...