Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broken through a wall of air, or an invisible ray into visibility....big, slow-moving men in the uniforms of the teams they had served. They lumbered onto the field and their feet touched the earth, yet the earth did not take note of them; they raised no dust, disturbed no blade of grass...
...Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
They lay as they had fallen, crumpled and now frozen in death, dust-covered mounds in the flat expanse of the gray-brown desert. There were hundreds of them, Iranian infantrymen who had fought and died. A column of Iraqi tanks, their spotlights flickering through billows of thick dust, churned past the bodies toward the east; the roar of their engines blended into a continuous hum. As outgoing rounds of 130-mm artillery shook the windows of his headquarters nearby, Iraqi Major General Sultan Hashem Ahmed told a group of reporters: "There are no Iranian soldiers on Iraqi territory...
...result of this extraordinary care is Sharlea, a wool whose fibers are undamaged by weather and virtually dust free. The fleece of a Sharlea sheep now brings farmers $56 for about 7 lbs., in contrast with $14 to $17 for the wool of sheep raised normally. While Sharlea flocks are growing, they still account for only about 15,000 of Australia's 139 mil- lion sheep. Some critics decry even that modest inroad, insisting that sheep are happier in their natural environment. Not so, contends Robert Beggs, who has 435 shedded sheep on his farm near Melbourne. Says...
Alexander composes a hymn to the cobblestones, "small, regular granite blocks of all colours" on old Moscow's streets: "When the rains washed away the dirt and dust, drawing colours from the heart of the stone, their chance mosaic was far richer than the asphalt's colourless monotony." Winter is a cause of wonderment as sleighs move silently through the snow-hushed city. Finally comes the happiest of seasons in Russia, spring, with its ritual opening of windows. "Fresh spring air, wild and cool, fills the room, bringing with it the city's bright polyphony of voices, bells, and squealing...