Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the marble corridors of the State Department like a broncobuster. A onetime (1942-49) FBI agent and former administrative assistant to New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, McLeod was brought in to direct the State Department's security "cleanup" program, and he quickly kicked up a dust that never quite settled. Last week the dust blew and the epithets flew anew as President Eisenhower nominated Scott McLeod to be U.S. Ambassador to Ireland...
...knows where comets originate. One respected theory is that they are loose aggregations of matter distantly associated with the solar system. They may have been left over from the dust cloud that went to form the sun, or they may have originated in a Saturn-like ring that once surrounded the sun. Most of them are believed to stay far beyond the outermost planets, moving on orbits so distant that they are invisible. A few have been affected by some passing star and deflected into lopsided orbits that carry them periodically down toward the sun. These are the comets that...
Even before its publication date last week, a new, closely detailed biography of John Foster Dulles was embroiled in the kind of pundit-blown dust storm that recurrently swirls about the U.S. Secretary of State. Much of what is told in John Foster Dulles (Harper; $4.50), by John Robinson Beal (TIME'S diplomatic correspondent in Washington), had been told before, but two points in the book were enough to precipitate the storm. Reported Author Beal: ¶Dulles last year canceled the proposed $56 million loan to help Egypt's Dictator Nasser build the Aswan Dam because...
...Scrollery. Today the scholars for the most part leave the search to the tribesmen, who have become highly skilled in the work. The Bedouins sift with timeless patience through four-foot layers of dust and bat dung, spoonful by spoonful, to find the tiny fragments of black and crumbly leather-often smaller than a postage stamp-that they know will make them rich. The Jordan government has given the Ta'amireh Bedouins a cave-hunting monopoly-making the Qumran area a military zone, and policing it to keep other tribes from muscling in on the scroll rush...
...dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified at the change in her defeated father. "I can't bear it," she cries. "Won't you be yourself...