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  • As Conor walked alone, wiping tears from his dust-caked cheeks, Ben ran after his father.

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • As Conor walked alone, wiping tears from his dust-caked cheeks, Ben ran after his father.

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • Ramin Rahimian for The Wall Street Journal When they moved in, the roughly 7,000-square-foot building housed a small apartment, office and dust-caked factory floor -- along with an industrial vacuum the size of a small room that once was used to remove paint fumes from drying signs.

    Warehouse Living 2010

  • When they moved in, the roughly 7,000-square-foot building housed a small apartment, office and dust-caked factory floor — along with an industrial vacuum the size of a small room that once was used to remove paint fumes from drying signs.

    Group Residences, With an Industrial Twist Cari Tuna 2010

  • But over the years I have learned to accept the invitation to eat together with the people I write about whenever I can, even if the meal is no more than a fistful of dust-caked, green raisins.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  •  Enter three citified gangstas who limped into the driveway in a dust-caked black BMW 750Li, fashionably thin tennis shoe tires now torn up (from driving off-road to the marijuana patch it goes without saying).

    Overheard While Buying Tires in Willits 2010

  • In two weeks of coverage of the Haitian earthquake, we've seen some journalists who cross the barrier (Dr. Nancy healing the sick on the Today show) and many who don't (countless photographers behind the now-unavoidable images, most of dust-caked limbs and motherless children).

    When We Look At Disaster ... 2010

  • But over the years I have learned to accept the invitation to eat together with the people I write about whenever I can, even if the meal is no more than a fistful of dust-caked, green raisins.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • And ripened on a dry slop of peanuts, cornflakes and newspaper shavings, moiled between the washer and dryer and shelves of dust-caked soda bottles, the pig that grew tall enough to sniff and lick the doorknob.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • And ripened on a dry slop of peanuts, cornflakes and newspaper shavings, moiled between the washer and dryer and shelves of dust-caked soda bottles, the pig that grew tall enough to sniff and lick the doorknob.

    KRISTIN NACA--YOU GO, GIRL! 2008

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