Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, by a 77-to-0 vote, ratified four treaties setting up more humane standards for the treatment of P.W.s and civilian internees. The treaties grew out of the 1949 Geneva Conference, were presented to the Senate in April 1951, but had gathered dust there ever since because of the Korean...
...damage was not the work of rioting mobs (or of Communists, as Perón said) but rather of methodical arsonists. At the 233-year-old Church of San Ignacio, a terrified caretaker saw them: 30 or 40 swarthy, roughly dressed men carrying crowbars and bottles of gasoline. While dust still hung over the nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar altar and its historic, Indian-carved pulpit. At the same time, similar bands of men touched off other important churches...
...Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...
...swing through Siberia and the Urals took in a 100-mile drive through dust and desert wind to see one of the new state farms and a visit to the steel centers of Magnitogorsk and Sverdlovsk, where Nehru showed more interest in the geology museum than in the blast furnaces, but did not fail to note the rigid and extensive security measures, the number of hefty Amazons armed with Tommy guns, and the general attitude, "ask no questions and expect no answers." Headed westward again, Nehru stopped off at Leningrad. There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing...
...administer the enormously centralized state with all the finality of one thousand years' unbroken tradition. These "supreme luminaries who control the state itself, its legislation, its finances and its personal politics, are totally removed from the eyes of the profane, and no breath of air disturbs the venerable dust of centuries that has gathered about them...