Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth, sea or air have disclosed a Russian test in Siberia or a U.S. test in mid-Pacific. But on one occasion last year, a mass crossed Japan that had seemingly got lost. It arrived from the west, dropping radioactive rain on much of Japan and radioactive dust on the northern island of Hokkaido. A sample sent to Tokyo proved to be ordinary dust from the Gobi Desert, which often falls on Japan. It must have got its radioactivity from a "hot" air mass that passed near the Gobi...
Most astronomers now think that the sun and its planets were once a great cloud of gas and dust which gradually condensed around a central mass. That mass became the sun. As the gas cloud grew smaller and denser, some of its material spun out to form a flat disk. After a billion years or so, the disk broke up into loose blobs called protoplanets. Each of these contracted independently, forming its own core. Any material left outside eventually turned into satellites revolving around a planet...
...With the Golden Arm is Frank Sinatra, but the swooning in the picture has nothing to do with singing. Happy dust fills the air as an absorbed audience watches the hero get his, but not in the end. Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak gradually displace the heroin; as a result, Robert Benchley finds himself unable to sleep in a short at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...intelligent Falcons, the Air Force's air-to-air missiles. The Falcon's tiny gyros, bearings and electronic components must be manufactured with a super-watchmaker's precision. The job is done in a great, windowless factory on the desert outside Tucson, Ariz. No speck of dust can be tolerated. The air is changed by fans and filters every nine minutes, and positive air pressure is maintained inside the building so that any air leakage will be outward, not inward. Engineers in the drafting rooms are forbidden to tear paper or use pencil erasers (both make dust...
...Dust screens rise before the attacking tribesmen, mobile artillery lobs fireballs at the wooden stockade, and at the climactic moment an improvised land torpedo demolishes a corner of the fort. The siege is superlatively picturesque, and so is almost everything else that Cameraman "Wilfrid Cline has trained his lens on. Some spectators, though, may be mildly startled at the final fade, in which the lovers are back in the water again, drifting sensuously downstream together with nothing on as they laugh derisively at the wagon train that rolls sturdily past them on its way to the coast. Somehow, it just...