Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust had scarcely settled on the ruins of the Senate foreign aid bill when the Administration set out to rebuild the program out of the rubble. The White House started at once to try to reverse the stunning 41-to-27 defeat. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, in daily consultation with President Nixon, put together a high-level, high-pressure lobbying campaign that sent Cabinet members scrambling to the rescue of foreign aid. Secretary of State William Rogers pleaded with a hostile Senate Foreign Relations Committee to put the program back together. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird warned that the moment...
...until the winter of 1969, when the dust from the Cultural Revolution had settled sufficiently for Chou to launch Peking's unprecedented diplomatic drive, the Chinese had not established much of a diplomatic track record. Partly, that was by choice. The old, exclusive Middle Kingdom notions lasted a long time. It was not until 1860 that China even deigned to set up an office to deal with foreign affairs...
...this moment was the nadir of Picasso's life. He was living in the Bateau Lavoir, a studio building in Rue Ravignan. "No one," Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...
...casual Parisian passerby, the contraptions look like smokestacks or versions of Colonnes Morris, pillars handy for posting theatrical notices. Actually, the two 16.5-ft.-tall towers just erected in the Gare de Lyon section of Paris are huge, electrically driven vacuum cleaners designed to suck in dust, filter it and blow clean air out the top. "Clear the air! Wash the wind! Clean the sky!" as T.S. Eliot put it. If tests made of the surrounding air show that the towers really work, 50 to 100 more may be set up around the city. But that would require more electricity...
...experiment soon led to a bit of unseemly partisan politicking. At one concert at U.C.L.A., members of a local "Schroeder Society" demonstrated for Beethoven, while lads and lasses in Mahler T shirts joined the good-natured battle by passing out "Vote for Gustav" leaflets. When the dust had settled, Mahler was the victor-by a single vote. Analysts pointed out that Beethoven might have triumphed had not his supporters split their vote among the four symphonies...