Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back to the college...
...airbursts which the gunners hoped would send sharp fragments flying into the enemy ratholes. One clear morning, after Thunder jets and artillery had given the hill a final treatment, the ROKs attacked again, in single and double file, scrambling up a slope covered several inches thick with the dust of battle, kicking up such clouds that they could scarcely see one another...
Last August Dr. van Biesbroeck returned to the Sudan. Khartoum had not changed; the same caravans of groaning camels kicked up dust from the desert. But the brilliant stars in the desert sky had, he was sure, changed slightly. He unwrapped his telescope, chasing a dozen lizards out of the tarpaulin. Waiting five days for a night of good "seeing," he photographed the starfield in Aquarius where the sun had been six months before. Then back he flew to Wisconsin to start his long computations...
...retired naval officer of some 43 years of service and a veteran of amphibious warfare from Guadalcanal to the occupation of Japan, I dust off and don my uniform cap to salute you on your Nov. 24 article on General Lemuel Shepherd...
Nearly a month after the election, the Republicans and Democrats alike were still shaking off the dust of the campaign, picking up new bearings and keeping an eye on the ballot boxes. Items...