Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words that Congressmen speak in debate are duly entered in that chrestomathy of tedium, the Congressional Record, then laid aside to gather dust and oblivion. But a fortnight ago, the words of a former Congressman were remembered, and they helped solve a problem for the Senate committee considering whether to censure Joseph R. McCarthy...
Magnetic Maid. A cleaning device that attracts dust and dirt magnetically into small piles for easier sweeping has been put on the market by Damar Products, Inc. of Newark, N.J. "Magnetik Sweeper" has rubber ridges on the bottom, which create electrostatic action. Price...
Without shedding even his coat, 42-year-old Preacher Sawyer grabbed his movie camera and made for the camp gateway. One nudist tossed a neat block and Sawyer's burly bulk (5 ft.11 in., 225 Ibs.) hit the dust (see cut). Nudists rallied to revive him with a first-aid kit. a camp chair and a sandwich. A few minutes later, he tried again, fell even harder. Next day Preacher Sawyer came back, once again found the gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere...
...most Americans, Government statistics are meaningless, dust-dry columns of astronomical figures printed in small type in dull pamphlets. Few citizens actually read the figures, but not one is unaffected by them...
...Castile," says British Author V. S. Pritchett, "is a landscape of hidden villages, suddenly come upon, like crocks of earthenware in the soil, crumbling in the summer heat, sodden in the torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding...