Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Peace and all conversation stops. No one knows quite what to say or how to act in front of world-renowned professor. Deutsch himself seems a bit ill at ease with all the attention, but he sits down on the first of the concrete steps, ignoring the dust that collects on his heavy black trousers. Sensing the distance that separates him from the students, he turns to a young man at his right who is wearing a shirt reading "photographers do it in the dark." Deutsch smiles and at the same time knits his brow. "You are a photographer...
...pass under both roads via culverts. These can speed up or slow down the water and disturb the salmon battling upstream each spring to spawn. Indeed, biologists say that there has already been a drop-off in the number of fish in streams intersecting the Haul Road. Gravel and dust can be another problem. Tossed onto the permafrost by car wheels, they cause the snow to melt early in the spring. Waterfowl then nest prematurely in these moist spots and lose their young to frost...
...battle of Massachusetts. And, once the dust had cleared, the Minutemen of UMass had prevailed by crunching the Harvard lacrosse team for the fourth consecutive year, 16-13, on a beautiful spring day yesterday at the Business School Field...
...target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate in a circle around him. They reek of the peppermint smell of angel dust, and they are looking for somebody to blow away, like this turkey...
THEY'RE FAMOUS down on Capitol Hill for the ability to revive issues that are better left six feet under. Lately, they've been resuscitating a subject most of us were happy to see bite the dust four years ago. In 1975, then-President Ford watched the Indochina conflict wind down to its agonizing end and put the country's Selective Service System on "deep standby" status. Meanwhile, Ford initiated the system of All-Volunteer Forces (AVF), a program aimed at keeping the nation's military system sufficiently staffed without resorting to conscription...