Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sliding from the Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...
...Branford College had paid about $100 for the fragment. Now, if it were for sale, a fair asking price would be $15,000. Professor Schrade rescued his treasure from the dust, had it cleaned, photographed and installed in an air-conditioned basement vault. Probably no one will ever know what it sounds like; scholars have not succeeded in transcribing the old neumes into modern notation...
...ignominious defeat in Cuba, José Ortega y Gasset decided that the circumstances of Spanish life demanded drastic overhaul. For 300 years, he wrote, Spain had been sinking into a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . Today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history...
...sweet to breathe and its gentle murmuring Cures the diseases of men, blows away the stupor of the wine, Sharpens sight and hearing, and refreshes the body . . . The Woman's Wind, the common people's wind, rises from the streets And narrow lanes, carrying clouds of dust . . . Now this wind is heavy and turgid, oppressing man's heart. It brings fever to his body, ulcers to his lips, and dimness to his eyes. It shakes him with coughing; it kills him before his time. To our Los Angeles Woman Wind, we resign ourselves...
...raised on the vigorous traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...