Word: dusted
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...like the first line of a dirty joke, but it was a meeting of St. Louis gynecologists that brought Missouri's U.S. Senate candidates to the city's elegant University Club last week. The two played to type: Governor Mel Carnahan, the two-term Democrat, gave an earnest but dust-dry talk about how he supported a genuine patient's bill of rights and his opponent, incumbent John Ashcroft, didn't. The better orator, Ashcroft joked easily and touted his work on cutting back Medicare regulations. Judging by applause, the crowd seemed equally divided...
Thus learned the residents of Stoughton Hall last week when Harvard's idyllic architectural charm turned into a harbinger of disaster. In North 29 plaster fell, dust clouds filled the room and three first years acquired a set of minor scrapes and bruises. The rest of the hall was spared the mess but not the ensuing mayhem. All of Stoughton's residents were evacuated by HUPD...
Harvey was raised in Portland, Ore., in a house built by a carpenter father who moved West during the Depression, running from the same swirling dust storms that are bearing down on Harvey's city as he speaks. He wears the same style of Stetson his dad wore, and his eyes tear up when he talks about him. "He was the most honest man I ever knew. So upright he never managed to make money," he says...
Most of the ceiling in Stoughton North 29 fell to the floor just before noon yesterday, sending dust and large chunks of plaster raining down on the heads of the students in the room and on their possessions...
...didn't really see what happened, there was a lot of dust," Lyons said. "We just got out of there...