Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rich farming areas of western Minnesota, still suffering the effects of last year's drought, now have a plague to contend with: millions of crop- destroying grasshoppers are creating conditions reminiscent of the Dust Bowl 1930s...
...front of Communist Party headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Makeyevka, 5,000 miners in battered helmets, their faces and overalls black with coal dust, staged a sit-in to demand better working and living conditions; their ranks eventually swelled to almost 150,000 from 94 mines. Far to the east, in the Kuzbass in Siberia, the numbers were even greater. About 180,000 miners abandoned their pits to occupy central squares in nine cities, plastering reviewing stands with homemade signs proclaiming DOWN WITH BUREAUCRATS and KUZBASS: CLEAN AIR, MEAT FOR EVERYONE, WE DEMAND SOCIAL JUSTICE...
...that day as Toad tramped on through the undiscovered country, his eye was suddenly transfixed by the sight beside the old cattle track of four Eveready size-D batteries lying in the dust. It was as if a passing whaleship had answered Ahab: "The white whale? Yeah, we killed him yesterday." An old joke. Toad suffered a deflation...
...dust jacket of your new book says that the Pulitzer committee "must have been drunk out of their minds" when they gave you the prize. What ever do you think possessed the Pulitzer jury to give you a prize...
...also interested in coming back and doing it again next year." When Bentsen was a younger man, he killed a black rhino bull with a single bullet from his Holland & Holland. It was a neck shot, and the huge animal dropped where it stood in the hot Kenya dust...