Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two documentary images of the Great Plains. The first is a black-and-white photograph of the '30s Dust Bowl, with windblown homesteaders treading the cracked earth. The second: a glossy color shot of the same land 40 years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains...
...saddest indignity suffered over the centuries by Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza has stemmed from erosion, seemingly caused by a single enemy-the relentless desert wind. At the present rate of decay, experts say, the 64-foot-high figure could be reduced to a mound of dust in five to ten centuries...
...poetry that MacLeish kept producing during these years acquired a solemnly official ring. Land of the Free, written to accompany a series of Dust Bowl photographs, purported to record the unspoken questionings of the People; America Was Promises urged the same People to demand their rights ("Listen! Brothers! . . ./ Companions of leaves: of the sun"). These symphonic musings inspired Edmund Wilson to malicious parody: "And the questions and/ Questions/ questioning What am I? O/ What shall I/ remember? . . ./ Till the hearer cried:/ 'If only MacLeish could remember if only could...
...Angeles Dodgers, who at the same time happened to be losing six straight. Dodger Leftfielder Dusty Baker thought the San Diego hand-slapping (high fives, low fives) a little elaborate for April, and the teams waged a brief beanball war over this point of etiquette. When the dust settled, Los Angeles Manager Tommy Lasorda concluded that the entire affair was just something "prefabricated" by the media...
...seventh inning, the softballers finally hit their stride Harvard battled around, and when the dust had cleared, the Crimson had turned a 6-5 cliffhanger into a 13.5 laugher...