Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also during our time that notable homme du monde, Lucius Beebe arrived in a cloud of dust, straight from the Dean's Office is New Haven and settled down cheerfully as a CRIMSON staff writer. The results were far too numerous to mention. Among them a proposal (greatly applauded at the time) to trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield, and a shattering expose of Kate Douglas Wiggin for plagiarism. William I. Nichols '26 (Editor--This Week Magazine...
Badly clothed, still worse fed, having missed all the joy of carefree childhood, it was inspired by a great dream of the future." But the dream turned to dust...
During their first day on the dangerous island, Richards and Walker climbed the cone and descended 200 ft. into the crater, often sinking to their knees in fine lava dust. They watched steam escaping from a hole 6 ft. across "with a roar that you would expect from 100 jet planes...
...days later, while Richards and Walker were camped at the foot of the cone, the volcano blew its top. A vast cloud of black smoke billowed out of the crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...
...always in such stories, the agent of law & order, the unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...