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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, the opposing sides fired off two of the most concentrated artillery and mortar barrages of the war. On about 800 yards of front, the U.S. dropped 32,000 rounds, the Chinese 15,000 rounds. Item Company Marines waited, their eyes strained by sleepless vigilance, endless concussions and flying dust and dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Tonight and Tomorrow ... | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Dreams to Dust. Except for a couple of brief, unsatisfactory leaves, Lieut. Drogo stays at the fort until he is an old man. And when, at last, the "Tartars" suddenly advance upon the fort, Drogo is so decrepit that he is kicked out to make room for stronger men. Back in the city, utterly disillusioned by his wasted life, he is promptly attacked by a new enemy-death. Mustering his last reserves of discipline and courage, Drogo meets this fatal enemy with a brave smile. As he sees it, in his last moments, death only means that "The worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheist's Funeral March | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...more powerful than that which had fallen on Hiroshima three days previously. Looking down on Nagasaki, Sergeant Raymond C. Gallagher of Chicago, wearing welder's goggles to protect his eyes, saw three "shock circles" rising through the boiling-up column of smoke, flame and dust. In that instant one-third of the city, including the Mitsubishi steel plant, had been destroyed. Engulfed in the explosion were 252,000 people, 36,000 of whom died, and 40,000 of whom were seriously injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Candles on a River | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Luke 6:42: "You double-dealer, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionary's English | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Dust Up. Daycon Products Inc. of Washington, D.C. began sales of Endust, a chemical that when sprayed on floor mops coagulates dust for house cleaners. It forms dust into small balls of lint which can be easily shaken off the mop on to a newspaper. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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