Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three floors of classrooms constitute the entire school. The dusty halls, off white and drab brown walls, dark floors, iron stair cases and dim lighting all contribute to the musty atmosphere of the 50-year-old building. Everything in the school seems to be coated with a layer of dust. Hall cites the school's lack of recreational facilities and limited extra-curricular activities as its chief disadvantages. "We are a 9 to 3:30 workshop-type school," he explains...
...Washington with her sugar daddy and dimly perceives that the place is a fen of corruption. She may be dumb in the wiles of this world, but she is not a crook. Ultimately, her innate goodness and the love of an idealistic young man allow her to kick the dust of all those capital shenanigans from her heels. Judy Holliday could have played this part perfectly. In fact, in Born Yesterday...
...trucks rumbled toward Tarfaya, Morocco's southernmost city, with cargoes that included 42,580 tons of water, food and fuel, along with blankets and tents. Overhead, army helicopters scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through its own cloud of red dust. At night the motley army dozed in blankets or thick djellaba robes, with hoods pulled over their heads, and charcoal braziers glowed brick red as they brewed the omnipresent mint...
...least was provide wide discussion," a disappointed Dahl says today about the report's performance. "It didn't even do that." What went wrong? Dahl's version portrays a faculty basically unreceptive to change and a student body that cared little either as the primary reasons for the dust that has since gathered on the report...
...doomed to failure. In the long run, a report here that is similar to the Yale committee's will probably lead to disappointment for its authors, Dahl says - a disappointment that is natural when you put in several years' work on a broad educational review that ends of gathering dust instead of momentum for change...