Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
Panayides left a young wife, Koutsoftas a wife and three young children. All three executed men had brothers, sisters and parents. Moved from the prison area, bereaved relatives waited the night through together, a weatherbeaten group in dust-covered farming clothes, their faces molten with a mixture of sadness and indissoluble hatred. Far away in England, Mrs. Patrick Hale, with a six-month-old child in her arms and another on the way, came home...
...Dead Sea Scrolls have already raised more dust in Christendom than anything since Darwin, and will certainly kick up more in years to come. It is well known that the scrolls were the sacred documents of a monastic sect living 20 centuries ago at Qumran, in what is now Jordan, and that the members of the sect hid the scrolls in caves to safeguard them from advancing Roman legions. But who were these people of the Dead Sea? The question is momentous, because they lived near the place where John the Baptist preached the Messiah's coming, during...
...archaeologists tell us that the Dead Sea caves are hot and dark," he writes. "The same might be said of the controversy which has raged around their contents. At this point, however, it might be healthy to stand back a little from the din and furor and clouds of dust and try to appreciate the scriptures of the Brotherhood simply from the point of view of what they offer to religious thought and insight. They represent an experience which has been repeated often enough in history-the experience of the typical nonconformist who combines, by a strange and wonderful alchemy...
...Newk led the pack. While he held the Cards to two measly runs, the shambling fireballer walloped back-to-back homers his first two times at bat. Then he hit a clean single; a few minutes later he got his big feet churning and stole second. When the dust settled and someone took time to add up the score, the Dodgers had won, 17-2. Big Newk had won his 25th game, the first Dodger to do so since Dazzy Vance...