Word: windblown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moust Sanapoe--4.10, windblown powder, Fab to good...
...Week after week gales of 60, 70 and 80 miles an hour scourged the earth. In the Oklahoma panhandle alone there were 499,000 acres of land that either I) lost at least one inch of topsoil, or 2) been covered with from one to two inches of windblown dust and sand...
...life on the fashion scene becomes gay and giddy to match the season. It's spring when fashion more or less let's you do what you want, and you can dress the role of the spritely gamine, or the innocent and demure little girl, or have the causal windblown air of the little boy. All that determines the choice is your mood...
Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery announced a major acquisition: a bronze Diana, accompanied by a little stag. The 36-inch-high figure, modeled by a Greek of the 2nd or 3rd century B.C., is extraordinarily well preserved. It has a windblown freshness and grace that no later sculptor could have improved on. Gallery Director Edgar Schenck would not say what his sculpture cost, but made clear that he thought it priceless: "We believe there is no other Greek bronze yet discovered which compares in size and quality to our Diana...
...destination of the guarded man was a bleak chain of coral reefs and windblown wastes inhabited by lizards and black rats-the Monte Bello Islands, off the northwest coast of Australia. There, while planes crisscrossed overhead and a flotilla of eleven Australian warships plied the nearby sea to keep the curious away, Britain last week made its great gamble...