Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dutch Cleanser, Jane (Carole Shelley), who treats dust spots as germs. Her husband Sidney (Larry Blyden) is a shopkeeper who seems destined for smaller things. Their guests arrive. Ronald (Richard Kiley) is an upper-class banker of such genteel indifference that he reads a washing-machine manual while Sidney smarmily courts...
...appeared at low tide to wallow in the shallows like huge sea lions, there are signs of activity on "the Indian side." Small children scamper from house to house--16 identical government prefabs staring blankly across the blue through 16 identical broken picture windows. The wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat...
Finance Minister, Giscard always seemed to be a cold, remote bureaucrat. But he set the country on its ear at his very first presidential press conference, declaring: "I aim first of all to dust off the republic." That is precisely what he has done. From his low-keyed inauguration and his subsequent stroll along the Champs-Elysées, Giscard has launched an all-out effort to stamp his presidency as young, relaxed, liberal and open...
...behind some of the most streamlined of modern industry's antiseptic factory façades. An official estimate by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare says that about 100,000 U.S. workers will die this year from occupational diseases. Hundreds of thousands more will be infected by dust-borne poisons that may kill or disable them later. According to the authors of these two books, almost no one, except relatives of the victims, seems to care...
...stop smoking. When one protested that he smoked nothing but an occasional cigar, a Tyler plant manager told him he must be drinking too much milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever said to me that the stuff could hurt you," Hubert Thomas, who had worked at the Tyler plant...