Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain of a man getting a mesquite thorn removed from his thumb -- this may be the most vividly rendered old West in TV history...
...ongoing excavation is one of the few tourist sights in Italy with regular hours these days. Five days a week, fair weather or foul, the team is out shoveling and charting its discovery. A miniature Bobcat bulldozer shovels dirt around in one section, while in another, workers gingerly remove dust from rocks with tiny brushes. "Everybody stops to take a look," says De Marinis. "People yell all kinds of questions. Mostly they ask us what's new. But usually it's the foreigners; for Florentines, it's more a pain in the neck...
...turns out the way I think it will, there will be nothing like it," Trump said as he took a reporter on a tour of the possibilities about a year ago. The sun streamed in on a scene of chaos. The walls were bare plasterboard. Plaster dust powdered the new bronze window frames. Wires dangling from the ceiling barely hinted at the chandeliers that Trump envisioned. But Trump sounded rapturous about the workmanship on a newly installed door. He gently shut it and opened it again. "Look how it fits," he said...
Like all good hosts, the Harvard women's track team fed its opponents a meal Saturday at Gordon Indoor Track. Unfortunately for the Northeastern Huskies, all they got to eat was a large helping of dust. The Crimson women soundly defeated Northeastern, 82-31, and raised their record...
...more likely it is that the impact will be negative." Warned Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution: "There will be no winners in this game of ecological chairs, for it will be fundamentally disruptive and destabilizing, and we can anticipate hordes of environmental refugees dwarfing the numbers of the Dust Bowl era or the boat people...