Word: rust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giuliano took care to see that his name did not rust. When interest in his exploits flagged, Giuliano wrote letters to Palermo editors. Once he declared war on Italy and offered to meet ten government officials, one at a time, in mortal combat. "If I lose, I lose only my life," he said. "If I win, I take over the government." Two years ago Mama Giuliano was arrested for abetting the bandits. When she was later released in a general Holy Year amnesty, her son issued a statement to the papers thanking all concerned and suggesting an armistice between himself...
Traveling alone by dog sled in 1932, lean Father Henri arrived in King William Land, near the Magnetic Pole, with a portable altar and a bare minimum of supplies. Because of his rust-colored beard the Netsilik Eskimos called him Kai-i-o (The Red One); they were fascinated by his long black cassock, and asked whether they could make a tent...
...weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings apiece in the London markets. But by week's end the divers had found a genuine Spanish dagger in a ten-inch sheath encrusted with rust, and two Spanish medallions...
Hawkes is preoccupied with decay, with the rust on an abandoned gun or the fungus on a dead soldier. He is preoccupied with disgust, with the technical details of wringing a chicken's neck or the inept skinning of a fox. He is preoccupied with the warriors and valkyries of the German folk-myths...
...Denver had also let 23 old trucks rust and disintegrate on the roof of an ample garage, had refused to sell them because the money would revert to the general U.S. treasury fund and thus be lost to the bureau. Meanwhile it had purchased 55 new trucks of similar type without trading in the old trucks...