Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless Korean cop. In wet weather the streets are covered by an evil black slime. Sailors say that Pusan's stench can be detected ten miles...
...atom bomb detonated underground would leave a radioactive crater which would be dangerous indefinitely, and the "hot" dust blown into the air might paint a broad band of silent death many miles downwind. The only safe way to simulate such an explosion is to use a "low-order" chemical explosive and scale up its effects theoretically to full atomic proportions. Last week at desolate Buckhorn Wash, Utah, Army engineers came the closest yet to simulating an atomic blast...
From Bucharest last week came another of those grimly familiar communiques out of the Land of Darkness at Noon: "Ana Pauker has been relieved of her functions by the Presidium of the National Assembly." And so another Cominformist bit the dust. Five years ago, 18 Communist big shots gathered somewhere in Poland "to reorganize the general staff of the world revolution." Of these 18, two have been executed, two excommunicated; two have risen higher in favor, at least three, and possibly five, have been purged. Moreover, the leadership of every one of the six principal satellites in the Cominform...
Talal stepped wearily into his Cadillac and began the ride to lonely isolation in the white stone Basman Palace, on a hilltop overlooking his capital. Then came the surprise. As his speeding car kicked up swirling dust, thousands of his subjects-disregarding instructions-lined the road from the airport to roar a feverish welcome. Men waved banners: "Welcome Back, Great Hashemite King" and "Come Back to Your Kingdom." From the rooftops, veiled women chanted a wailing Arabic song...
Most health columns in the daily press are dry-as-dust affairs in which the writer-doctor takes himself, his profession and his pen-patients with equal seriousness. An outstanding exception is the column which runs four days a week in the Providence Journal and Bulletin: never stuffy, often irreverent, it reflects the Yankee horse sense of its author, Dr. Peter Pineo Chase...