Word: dusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last; the car's air conditioning broke down, and as he sped through clouds of heavy red dust, Nixon sweated behind rolled-up windows...
...CLOUD of dust is rising up above the cathode horizon, and soon the biggest passel of straight-shooting, clean-living Westerners ever to jingle on screen will ride into TV. In its insatiable search for material, television is transforming the traditional horse opera into the "adult western." The results, which pushed one western last week to No. 3 in the Trendex popularity poll, have encouraged the networks into preparing a whole herd of new westerns for next fall in the biggest visible trend for the coming TV season. See TV-RADIO, High in the Saddle...
...four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed by the noncom who did the work and the officer who supervised it. Everyone who handles the contents of the secret wastebaskets is screened for top-secret clearance...
...demand in English. "This is not religious," muttered one bewildered movieman. "This looks political to me." But he kept his cameras grinding. At last, as suddenly as it had begun, the disturbance was over, and the frenzied crowd disappeared from the square, leaving behind them a cloud of yellow dust kicked up by the stamping of thousands of frantic feet...
...underground tombs left by the Etruscans who lived there 2,500 years, ago still contain priceless art treasures, while others, robbed centuries ago, are not worth the trouble and expense. When a modern, authorized graverobber (archaeologist) finds a tomb and digs laboriously into it, he often finds only dust and broken crockery. Last week Amateur Archaeologist Carlo Lerici was proving that modern scientific techniques can take the gamble and much of the secret out of Etruscan tomb-hunting...