Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tower's red-and-black-clad Yeoman Warders (the Beefeaters) scrambled to carry the injured out of the basement. Said Armory Warder Harry Harrington: "It was just like wartime. There was a woman with her leg off, kids with no clothes." When the dust settled, 37 persons, including eight children, had been injured. Two of the victims lost their legs, and a child's foot was found beneath the cannon. One British woman, Dorothy Household, 47, died later that night...
...students today worry about and struggle only for security careers in what they perceive as a frightening economic environment, we can be inspired by the admirable Loeb portrayal of Ralph Berger's tentative growth and determination during the bottom of the Depression, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust," Jacob quotes Isaiah, "and the earth shall cast out the dead...
...crowd got a look at what it was regaining. Once a community of 70,000 and the relatively prosperous center of a rich agricultural area, Quneitra lies shattered. Most of its buildings are knocked flat, as though by dynamite, or pockmarked by shellfire. Surrounded by rubble and flying dust, Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ayoubi called the destruction "barbaric"-without referring to Syria's part in the fighting-and charged that much of the damage had occurred "not in war, but before Israel withdrew...
There is a very specific, dense and playful sense of nature that only a rural childhood can give. The bawdy animism of Miró's early paintings, done with a sharp, quizzical line that chirrups like a grasshopper in the Catalan dust, is a matter of detail and observation: getting the nose in and keeping it there. When he was working on one of his first great paintings, The Farm, a compendium of animal, vegetable and human life at Montroig, Miró even brought back some dried grasses from Catalonia to Paris to serve as a model. Ernest Hemingway...
...Jonathan Spence, professor of Chinese history at Yale, has pruned and selected this record. In the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, he has created what he calls an "autobiographical biography." But it is more than that. From the Emperor's resplendent portrait on the dust jacket to the small ink drawings scattered throughout, the book is both an object of careful craft and a most imaginative example of low-profile scholarship in which Spence's obviously immense efforts scarcely show...