Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front by a succession of Harvard runners; first Doug Hardin, then Dave Pottetti, and finally Tom Spengler. Mid-way up the last hill, Lokken suddenly found himself surrounded by four opponents. When Spengler raced right past the leaders, his teammates joined him, leaving Lokken gasping in the dust...
...Brazilian edition, published in 1962, was titled Primeiras Estorias (First Stories). The index was illustrated with pictograms representing the themes of the tales; the drawings are reprinted on the dust jacket of the U.S. edition...
...distracting din, the dust, plus the lack of privacy concomitant with the construction crew outside your window, really make the situation intolerable," commented Joan Braderman '70. "We should have the right to remove ourselves from this," she said...
...when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When the dust settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled to rubble, and 6,000 of its inhabitants died as it fell. The earthquake rumbled across the Iranian countryside, destroying 14 villages, and severely damaging another 16. The appalling toll...
Just two hours after Ronald Reagan and California Lieutenant Governor Bob Finch left for Miami Beach, a Democratic state senator began raising some dust back home. Senator Hugh M. Burns, president pro tem of the California senate and Acting Governor in the absence of the top two executive officers, invoked an obscure article of the state constitution and abruptly ordered the legislature to adjourn...