Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours of battle 32 Communists were killed and at least 85 wounded; one of the paratroopers was killed and 13 wounded. But eventually a heavy tear-gas barrage brought the Communists out of their trenches, choking and weeping, with their hands in the air. Even before the smoke and dust of battle had settled, it was clear that Bull Boatner...
Everybody in the R.A.F. had heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...Dust storm: a violent, dust-laden whirlwind moving across an arid region. The air is very hot, excessively dry, and attended by high electrical tension...
From an Airplane, Dimly. Other inversions produce other kinds of saucers. Sometimes a warm layer hangs several thousand feet up (see diagram). Often the layer contains dust, which increases its power to divert light. If an airplane is flying just above this layer, the pilot may see the dim displaced image of the sun, the moon or a high, brightly lighted cloud. The image will appear below him; it may be distorted, magnified, or in rapid motion. If the inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects...
...Cookson had never heard of the missing Musicians. He got the painting at a bargain when the owner died, then let it gather dust in his shop for ten years. After the war, he thrust it on an old customer, a retired British navy surgeon, Captain W. G. Thwaytes. "You can have it for ?200," he told Thwaytes. The captain said he had never paid ?200 for a picture. "Oh, go on," urged Cookson, "have it for ?100 [about $400 at the time]. I'm sure it's a genuine Caravaggio...