Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson rolled out of Lubbock in a blue Cadillac, rode over roads that had been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...
Genial Republican Thurston, 57, has left a trail of chalk dust behind him. A Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, he started out as a high-school science teacher in Manistee. worked his way up to be Michigan's superintendent of public instruction. A restless, bubbling executive, he ran his 8,000 schools and 42,000 teachers with amiable efficiency. But he was no ordinary bureaucrat: the best way to run a school, he insists, is to have an enlightened local citizenry do the job itself...
...Under a heavy barrage, a battalion of Chinese scrambled up the dusty, littered slopes of Harry. Battling hand to hand in their crumbling trenches, the outnumbered G.I.s drove the Reds off. The shelling continued. One by one, the bunkers collapsed, covering American and Chinese bodies with sand and dust. King was reinforced; the Reds attacked again & again. During the night, 20,000 artillery and mortar shells had exploded in an area smaller than Times Square. But the hill remained in U.S. hands...
...simply and mutually confederated for a time, a purpose, an end . . . The answer is very simple. I don't mean easy, but simple . . . The end does not even require that we dedicate ourselves from this moment on to be Joans of Arc with trumpets and banners and battle dust ... It can be done within . . . the normal life which everyone wants and everyone should have . . . Because it begins at home...
...attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses her own moral halo in the dust for a clandestine affair with a young schoolmaster. Rickie's sudden death brings both sisters up short with the sense of mutual loss and mutual widowhood. Novel's end finds the aging sisters reconciled and cluck-clucking over the hard time they gave and got from poor Rickie...