Word: dusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...divided into two camps, on opposite sides of Africa. The smaller group will set up its instruments in Mauritania, where the hot dry air should offer good viewing. But because Mauritania has experienced a severe drought for the past few years, sudden winds could blow up obscuring clouds of dust particles. Scientists are hedging their bets by establishing another camp on Kenya's Lake Rudolf, near Loiyengalani. Even more primitive than some of the sites in Mauritania, the village is accessible only by small planes or by Land Rovers on a two-day trip over rutted bush roads...
When all the dust had settled, the Nixons were left with the house and the remaining 5.9 acres at a net cost of only $251,000, plus $123,514 in improve ments, the difference between the original purchase price and the amount paid by Abplanalp. Not counting mortgage payments, the cash outlay made by the Nixons appears to have been...
...moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film has a parched, eerie splendor that no one could really destroy...
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...
Although the comet is now visible only as a speck of light in telescopes, solar radiation will boil off gases and dust from the nucleus as it approaches closer to the sun. In the "solar wind," the stream of electrically charged particles that continually emanate from the sun, the material from the nucleus should be swept into the characteristic comet's tail. As it reacts with the charged particles, the tail should begin to glow brightly-so brightly, in fact, that Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory believes that the comet could be visible to the naked...