Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time President Eisenhower wound up his six-state, 4,500-mile tour of the drought-ravaged Southwestern and Great Plains states, his face was a windburned, cherry red; his eyes were worn from squinting through dust and sun; his once carefully polished brown shoes were flaked with windblown dust. From his brusque manner and his almost perpetual frown, aides and reporters sensed that he was thoroughly depressed by what he had seen...
...with the unmistakable signs of disaster: careworn and worried farm men and women; parched, dried water holes; abandoned farm homesteads, their doors swinging open in the wind; thin, underfed cattle munching on de-spined prickly-pear cactus. As he went from farm to farm, Ike touched the weak, thin dust, crackled the dry tumbleweed between his fingers, examined with a knowing farmer's hands the bony backs and dull coats of underfed steers...
Gold has also demonstrated the possibility that dark regions on the moon are great dust layers, rather than massive flows of lava and has advanced an explanation of their origin. These dust clouds could have been formed, he said, by the constant bombardment of meteors pulverizing the surface...
...Gobelin tapestries, the finest crystals, magnificent antiques. In the palmy days before and after World War I the Palace became a kind of winter home for the very rich and the very royal. The Maharaja of Hyderabad would arrive with 500 trunks and a personal cook, who sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide the Aga Khan (an Ismaili Moslem) with a compass, so he could determine...
...Stadium contributing their five dollarses were Harvard alumni, who maintain a folk custom of keeping in touch with the old place by returning on Fall weekend pilgrimages. It's probably better to have them come than not come, for they are encouraged to give money when they taste the dust of Harvard Square on their tongues once again. They can hope for a Crimson victory; but we wish that they wouldn't expect it. Even the suggestion that Harvard alumni would consider a winning football eleven as continuing assurance that all is as fine as it ever...