Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British counteraction was swift and drastic. Thousands of Kikuyu tribesmen fled in terror to the mountains as troop carriers and armored cars rumbled through the native reserves kicking up clouds of red dust. Kenya cops tracked down "suspects" with bloodhounds, arrested thousands of Kikuyu who got in the way. The government started closing down the native schools operated by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the uncrowned king of the Kikuyu, whom...
Astronomers have long known that the space between the stars contains a good bit of gas, dust, and probably larger chunks of unattached matter. The space between galaxies, however, they believed to be virtually empty. The only exceptions they knew about were faintly luminous filaments that seemed to connect a few galaxies...
...importance of Zwicky's discovery has not yet been determined. Zwicky believes that the bridges must contain dust and gas as well as stars. If this turns out to be true, and if the bridges prove to be very common, astronomers may have to raise their estimate of the amount of matter in the universe. Such a change will affect the calculations of cosmologists, who are trying to figure out how the universe was formed and how it is developing. The total mass of matter is one of their key figures...
...toymakers have turned out the greatest variety of playthings in history, added many a new refinement to oldtime favor ites. There are Humpty Dumpties for a dime, giant elephants for more than $100, Teddy bears, now celebrating their 50th anniversary, that are chemically treated to keep them free of dust. Dolls do just about everything (eat, burp, nibble fin gers, frown, pucker lips, blow soap bubbles, wet, wail, walk, and recite verse...
Sorokin declared that moral values in our times have been "relativized, atomized and ground into dust." In fighting communism, he said, "we are introducing communist values, institutions and practices into this country in different colors and in different dress...