Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last collection of baseball bats in Cambridge and the broken crew oars, one finds a musty room, littered with empty cardboard boxes. There under shaded lamps stand the pool tables. One is covered with cartons, but the other seven are ready for use. The cues wait covered with dust in the racks, and red stiff-backed stools line the far wall...
...take persecution and humiliation to bring America to God . . . There's nothing wrong with being rich, but we're using so much of it for ourselves . . . When I see a beautiful city such as New York, I also have a vision of crumbling buildings and dust. I keep having the feeling that God will allow something to fall on us in a way I don't anticipate unless we return...
Toynbee to Date. On the morning after the start of World War II, the first six volumes of Toynbee's Study were gathering dust in libraries, their author un known outside a tiny circle. But by 1947 an abridgment had become a bestseller, and today Toynbee is a household word in all the better-informed households. His fame rests on two major achievements...
...should be the position of the explosion. This turned out, correctly, to be the Bikini region in the central Pacific. Further confirmation: nine days after the May 5 explosion, heavy radioactive rain fell on Japan. After studying the charts of high-altitude winds, Dr. Miyake decided that the radioactive dust had traveled west to the Philippines, then up the China coast to Formosa and Japan, where rain brought it down on May 14. Dust from earlier Bikini tests had made a sharper eastward turn and missed Japan entirely...
Unawaredly, the Fortunate Dragon cruised too close to the site of the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific (TIME, March 29). The test released more energy than the scientists had anticipated; Aikichi and his crewmates were liberally sprinkled with the fine white dust of the blast, which the Japanese have since come to know as shi no hai (the ashes of death...