Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Kamal el Malakh finished his peering through the hole in the limestone block, he behaved in the most approved Egyptological manner. He had the hole sealed up to protect the relics inside from air and dust. He posted armed guards to exclude unauthorized antiquarians. Then he went into a huddle with his most learned colleagues. This week he reopened the hole for an hour-and-a-half, gave eight noted Egyptologists and scholars a quick look at the treasure below by the light of an electric bulb on the end of a stick...
...writes, but there is a vapid, too-plaintive air that distracts the sympathy of the reader. "If you were born in Israel, you were a sabra, tough and tan on the outside, sweating in the sun, your heart and lungs and everything crying out as you kissed the dust and the salty dirt and asked for a little food." Diaspora won second prize...
Storm No. 2. Hardly had the dust settled when a storm broke around another big company, the bankrupt Texas Mutual Co. Two appeals court justices accused Texas Mutual of "Ponzi-like manipulations" and called the State Insurance Commission guilty of "fraud if not criminal laxity" for not doing anything about it. Texas Mutual was organized in 1949 by Leslie Lowry, ex-mayor of Beaumont (ousted by recall), and his brother Paul. They started with $500 of their own cash and $19,500 borrowed. To expand their assets, said the court, the Lowry boys bought (with notes, no cash) a shabby...
Some of the inhabitants of the two little atolls of Rongelap and Utirik, caught accidentally in a rain of radioactive coral dust from the March 1 H-bomb test (TIME, March 22), were showing distressing symptoms-" lowering of blood count, burns, nausea, and the falling off of hair from the head," said the petition. " The people . . . would have avoided much danger if they had known not to drink the waters on their home island after the radioactive dusts had settled on them." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was quick to tell the U.N. that the U.S. was " very sorry...
...literary aspirant did not turn a hair, though the stench would have overpowered most people. He calmly fetched a shovel and a wheelbarrow, conveyed the horrible object to the bottom of the garden, dug a large hole, buried it, and then returned to wash his hands carefully and dust his knees with a handkerchief scented with a few drops of eau de Cologne." The same method may be detected, of course, in The Forsyte Saga...