Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Cambridge and Brattle Street, is now a dead issue. The tourists that the liberals wanted to keep out of Cambridge won't come to see the Kennedy Library, and I.M. Pei's grandiose plans for the $27 million project, unveiled barely a year ago, are already covered with dust...
...When the dust cleared, the tactic seemed to have worked: a heavy turnout of 26,000 voters produced a 5-man Independent majority and also came within 88 votes of scuttling liberal councilor Francis H. Duehay...
...other centuries, doctors have known that miners, stone cutters and lens grinders (including the philosopher Spinoza) often developed respiratory disease from inhaling large quantities of dust; hatters suffered brain damage and went mad from absorbing toxic vapors from the mercury used in making felt. A London surgeon named Percivall Pott reported in 1775 that the soot-covered sweepers who cleaned Britain's chimneys had a far higher rate of cancer of the scrotum than the rest of the population...
...hats, a pennant, a bumper sticker, a coke and a Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series pen and pencil...
...hopeless isolation of the period is masterfully captured in newsreel footage of a bankrupt Dust Bowl farmer surveying his parched land and saying, "I'd like to see rain, I mean, I have seen it. I'd like to have my son--he's eight years old--see it." As a counterpoint to this hopelessness a robust Joe Louis is shown lustily chopping wood in his training camp and making sanguine predictions about his upcoming bout with Max Schmelling...