Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual the yardlings will go into a big game without enough practice behind them. However, the Crimson defense will be back at its old strength because Captain Dusty Burke has returned to his regular defense position. Furthermore, since the Belmont Hill game he has managed to remove the rust he accumulated while his collar bone was broken...
Died. William Rust, 45, cockney-born founding member of the British Communist Party and since 1930 editor of the London Daily Worker (circ. 120,000); of a stroke; in London...
...Communists were overrunning China like lava. Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
Roaches' Requiem. They sang over the ship's watercoolers and evaporators, over the food, coffee, soap bars and even the cockroaches of the storerooms. They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...
...early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...