Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolted and smashed. Mankind may not have learned a lot since then, but the automators have. Though Harvard raised riots for Pogo, Latin, and panties, there will be no upheaval over Widener's mechanized checkout station. Who would lead it? The unemployed old librarians now washing decades of Cambridge dust into azure Tampa Bay? The young men whose requests are received and punched by the fewer but much finer female technicians replacing the old librarians...
...Germans doubt that Konrad Adenauer will achieve his own ultimate request of history. "My wish," he said ten years ago, "is that some time in the future, when mankind looks beyond the clouds and dust of our times, it can be said of me that I have done my duty...
...while desecrated, defecated-on statues are immune, live human beings are not. For them, cryptococcosis may be a severe or even fatal illness, usually caught by inhaling dust from pigeon droppings...
...colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while. When they also discovered the forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy...
...determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month, one-quarter of the stamp's back yielded enough material to identify the licker as type...