Word: dusts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After living through [Monday], We feel really confident that we’ll be able to get through the next few weeks easily,” she said. “I don’t want to say the dust is settled, but we’re way ahead of schedule...
...chance.” In the third game, it was no question who was in control. Harvard took a 3-0 lead with Nelson serving, and after trading points until the score was 8-6, the Crimson racked up a 9-2 run, leaving the Pioneers in the dust, 17-8. Harvard maintained a solid lead, hitting .688 compared to Sacred Heart’s .091, as Weitzen slammed down a kill for a 29-14 lead and junior Jamie Crooks finished off the match with a kill of his own. “I was really happy with that...
...with a resounding 82 percent of the vote. That spring, however, the administrators all shook their heads in unison. President Summers even issued a special fiat expressly forbidding termbill fees. We found ourselves shrugged off into meetings with assistants, all the fall’s energy blowing away like dust in the proverbial wind. As a freshman, I was in way over my head. Fresh off Lester Brown’s “Eco-Economy,” a Bible for anti-capitalist environmentalists everywhere, I was full of big ideas and bluster, little of which I really understood...
...called Tunguska event dramatically illustrates what the dinosaurs painfully learned 65 million years ago: asteroids and comets do collide with earth. Geologists and astronomers believe that an asteroid several miles across crashed onto land then, kicking up enough dust to block out sunlight worldwide for years, leading to reduced agriculture and mass starvation. The same could happen to humans today should a “near-earth object,” or NEO, of that size crash into, say, Massachusetts...
...Zhao, his fellow miners called him -- a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner's lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China's Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. "Many of them are very young--just boys," Zhao says, pausing to light...