Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt somewhere in Von Hoerner's library he will find a dust-covered copy of this message from outer space. The advice and directions for preventing human self-destruction are there in black and white. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear (Matthew...
...Lebanon, the insurrection was more ambitious, recalling for awhile the 1958 civil war in which Christian President Camille Chamoun's government was in conflict with pro-Nasser Moslems until U.S. Marines restored order. When the dust settled, Chamoun stepped down and both Christians and Moslems united behind the presidency of ascetic General Fuad Chehab, a Christian Arab whose policy is pro-Western, yet also friendly to Egypt's Nasser. Last week's revolt against Chehab was led by the Popular Syrian Party, a right-wing Moslem group dedi cated to uniting Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq into...
Like a merry-go-round pony suddenly gone berserk, Blue Boy bellowed with rage and bucketed across the arena. Spinning, rearing, kicking up clouds of acrid dust, the wild-eyed horse struggled to un seat its rider. The violent ballet lasted just ten seconds. Then a klaxon sounded and McLean vaulted gracefully to the ground. The judges' verdict: 171 out of a possible 210 points...
...There was strong evidence that the Russians have developed an improved fission triggering device that greatly reduces the amount of radioactive fallout. Part of this new "cleanliness" might be attributed to high-altitude bursts, which do not suck up dust-but there was every reason to believe that the U.S.S.R. has made great strides in sophisticating its atomic art to a point almost equal to that...
With Arrows. Within an hour. Raja's tough Gurkhas had slipped into position around the dug-in Katangese on the airport road. Suddenly shots rang out. When the dust cleared half an hour later, one Indian was dead and four wounded, but among the shambles of the smashed roadblock lay 38 dead Katangese and still more wounded. The road was at last open, permitting a convoy of 240 Swedish reinforcements, just in by air from Europe, to move into the town itself...