Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dust swirled across China's great plains under cloudless skies. Red China was facing a major drought in its chief food-producing areas...
Anyone with this turn of mind was potentially a railfan, but there were negative factors to be considered, such as coal dust allergies and love of quiet. And there were still quite a few people around who just didn't like any machines...
...economist wife in their modest, government-owned home on the Venusburg overlooking Bonn. Heading for his Bonn headquarters, he dictates speeches as he rides, often stops off at a local market to check prices personally. As the Mercedes 300 lurches up to the entrance in a swirl of dust, his driver tries to get out and open the door. But Erhard is already out, Homburg in hand and cigar in mouth, charging toward the ministry entrance like a soccer forward. He waves jovially to the doorkeeper, fairly skips up the steps and down the long hall to his desk...
...crisis at Windscale was over, but alarm spread across Britain and refused to be checked by soothing statements from the Atomic Energy Authority. Air that has passed through the Windscale reactors is blown up a 416-ft. chimney that is capped by filters to keep radioactive dust from escaping into the atmosphere. The uranium fire deep in the reactor was too much for them. Some of its deadly "smoke" got loose, and a good bit settled on the surrounding countryside, now known in Britain as "Geiger Gulch...
...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...