Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BETWEEN CARS, dust flies: Between cars, dust flies, morning early; I hold tightly not to fall, and watch passing towns. Away from Harvard, between cars on Long Island Railroad, too early to get a seat; I watch (through grey dust) passing towns to avoid eyes of heavyset leering businessman who offers me a smoke, a stick of gum, a wink. Too early. Perhaps I should have looked harder for a seat; this area between cars is no-man's-land, and certainly no woman's. Same hazards as walking alone down 42nd St. Mister, mister, leave me alone; today...
...tourists jammed into their station wagon. Gregory shifted down and pulled into the Dixie Truckers Home at McLean, a huge truck stop even for the big roads of the Midwest. Outside the Dixie, cattle on the way to market kicked the sides of their trailers, horses neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They...
...career girls to be not quite normal, while 82% regarded the care of husband and child as their primary goal in life. Though 40% of all married women in West Germany hold jobs outside the home, most of them would be appalled if their Ehemann did the dishes or dusted the shelves. Says one well-educated Hamburg housewife: "If I saw my husband running around the house with a dust cloth in his hand, I couldn't go to bed with him any more. He'd be more like a brother to me." Nonetheless, a group called Frankfurt...
...Mississippi highway safety patrol are "professional officers-not hotheads." Yet last May, when they helped local police handle student demonstrations at predominantly black Jackson State College, the troopers did not bother to bring tear gas. Instead, they loaded their shotguns with 00 shot, the largest available. When the dust settled, a laconic voice came over the patrol's radio: "Better send an ambulance-we've got a few niggers down over here...
...while it is finished. and they are ready to toss the ashes and sprinkle the dust, and to commend his soul to God for the final time. And because he is a veteran, they have buried Anthony with the full privileges his heroism commands. Anthony Blake, dead at 20, is lowered into the grave, clothed in the flag...