Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that their relationships with others go wrong because they send contradictory "double messages" when they speak or listen. One illustration: a husband responded to a suggestion from his wife with the words, "That's a good idea"-but at the same time he brushed an invisible bit of dust from his trouser leg with a gesture of almost contemptuous dismissal. Similarly, a wife's quiet posture as she sat listening to her husband suggested attentiveness, but her face looked bored...
...started 37 years ago, the idea was that the Government would subsidize farmers to undertake such conservation practices as terracing their land, reseeding grassland and spreading lime on their fields to enrich them. The plan made sense in 1936: better conservation was urgently required to prevent the spread of dust bowls, and farm income in those Depression days needed bolstering by any means available...
From November until late January, pilots landing at the International Airport near the northern Nigerian city of Kano must worry about a special hazard. Hot winds off the Sahara, known as harmattan, pick up so much dust and sand that the sky becomes hazy and visibility is drastically reduced. Last week a Royal Jordanian Airlines Boeing 707 coming in for a landing at Kano had to make a second attempt because of the blinding harmattan. As the plane landed on the second try, the 707 suddenly burst into flames, and 176 of its 202 passengers were killed. The death toll...
...second thought, maybe those who aren't Vic and Sade fans should stay away. The rest of us, though, may soon find ourselves referring to our offspring as "dust mop" and "down-spout," or walking through the front door at home with a soft "Hi de hi, ho de ho." · Jack Keil
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (1 last week) 2-The Odessa File, Forsyth (2) 3-August 1914, Solzhenitsyn (3) 4-Semi-Tough, Jenkins (4) 5-The Persian Boy, Renault (5) 6-The Camerons, Crichton (6) 7-Elephants Can Remember, Christie (9) 8-The Eiger Sanction, Travanian (7) 9-Dust on the Sea, Beach (8) 10-Green Darkness, Seton