Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembly lines of slave factories important to the war effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich, near Lidice. His spine was severed, and it took...
...human capability for judgment and improvisation. A collection of instruments landed on the moon can do only the specific jobs for which it is designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that its designers want it to do-except the most important thing of all: react intelligently to unexpected situations...
...Sargent Shriver warn: "This will not be a moonlight cruise on the Amazon or a pleasure vacation in Kashmir.'' Added Wisconsin's Congressman Henry S. Reuss, a sponsor of a youth corps bill: "You can expect freezing cold and burning heat, mud when it rains and dust when it doesn't, fleas and dysentery...
...memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with bullets that it looked-making the Bat Masterson kind of tough talk come true-like a sieve. Ranging over more than 300 still pictures, the TV camera showed the hardships of the "unmarried, unchurched, and unwashed'' miners, the dust and sweat of the cattle drives, the tragedy of the Indians, who fell, inevitably, to the restless, driving people that had lassoed the future...
...League life. it is also one of the Birmingham is on the about in the entire reasonably literate could have put together of course residential statements of library sizes, and lists of alumni simply by reading office press releases, and never leaving his armchair. to the dust jacket and Birmingham was show potential applicants parents how the Ivy are similar and how they was also attempting to the individual personality institutions. But, according accounts, the only significant between any two Ivy the size of their libaries. the Ivy League sound rather drab institutions, only by the their sameness and their...