Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable that our place is a favorite hangout for the neighborhood kids. And there are lots of them. Sometimes they come in platoons. It isn't uncommon to see ten of them sprawled out in front of the television set watching six-shooters roar as badmen bite the dust. This is especially true on Saturday mornings...
...Right Language. While Ezra Taft Benson has raised plenty of dust among some farmers with that kind of philosophy, he was talking the right language to the Farm Bureau, the largest (1,626,632 families) farm organization in the U.S. For six years the Farm Bureau's president, an Iowa hog farmer named Allan Kline, has been arguing for flexible price supports. Kline subscribes to the theory that farmers would gear their production to supply and demand rather than to Government bounty if support prices ranged from 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus...
...never conducted grand opera in his life and never even heard of Cherubini's Medea. To make things worse, he had a case of bronchitis. Finally, the score with which he had to work dated from 1797, and, like most old books, it gave off dust -to which Bernstein is allergic...
...Clark satisfied himself that he had found, on the banks of the Chiriaca River, a far western tributary of the Amazon, a reasonable facsimile of El Dorado. There, he traded all his spare equipment for 50 Ibs. of gold dust and nuggets sifted from the river gravel by friendly headhunters. On the journey out of the jungle, he and his companion were forced to bury about half the gold because it was too heavy to carry farther. Living comfortably in San Francisco now, Clark has never gone back to pick...
Some of the hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Others were tossed out for "running cunning," i.e., working the wrong trail. Despite the dust that clogged hounds' noses and dissipated scents, the Futurity event (for pups whelped in 1952) was a success: two greys killed, a red cornered. The winner: Coburn Hill King, owned by Mrs. Clyde Smith of Peculiar...