Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Standing at Eastport's tip, you are the first American to see the sun rise on October 8, 1977. This is the country's easternmost point, tucked away where the suns and moons are never shrouded by the city's dust...
...sure tackler, and as he gets up around 50 he's even slower, broken down after 25 years in the mines with a bent left arms that won't straighten out all the way and a wheezing in the mornings from lungs full of high-grade bituminous coal dust...
...bureaucrat's equivalent of the infantryman's M-16 rifle: a blue loose-leaf notebook loaded with proposed speeches and pointed statistics dramatizing the need for the President's "National Energy Plan." But as Carter's attention drifted to other subjects, the books gathered dust on secretarial shelves. No more. The energy program is in real trouble in Congress, and General Jimmy has ordered his troops to hit those blue books -and the road-in a final blitz to win the energy...
...Aviv, Ham Operator Gurdus sat huddled before his set.* In Bonn, a member of Schmidt's crisis group recalled later, "You could have heard a speck of dust move...
...plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only a chemically inert white powder." Spotting the organisms, which fall into two basic groups, tests faculties of the most accomplished observers. "Those of the first group are directly discernible by the senses and indirectly by instruments," explains Lionni, "while those of the second, far more mysterious and elusive...