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  • Panetta spent Sunday afternoon at Camp Dwyer, a dust-choked U.S. outpost in southern Afghanistan.

    Panetta in Iraq to discuss future of U.S. troops 2011

  • Panetta spent Sunday afternoon at Camp Dwyer, a dust-choked U.S. outpost in southern Afghanistan.

    Panetta in Iraq to discuss future of U.S. troops 2011

  • The mantle above the fireplace is lined with several dust-choked photographs — Billy in Little League, pudgy and smiling; Billy's parents at their wedding surrounded by anonymous relatives; Billy and his parents posing in front of a nameless ocean; a copy of Billy's mother's obituary.

    Monkeytown prologue/chapter first Chris Vola 2011

  • The dust-choked dirt roads of the capital are often the first thing Afghans mention in their list of questions about where the billions of dollars in donor money has gone.

    Expectations Low As Donors Meet In Afghanistan 2010

  • How about a dust-choked wasteland overrun by zombies?

    Ned Goldreyer: A Tale of Tent Cities 2009

  • In the dust-choked eastern suburbs of Hanoi, for instance, a property boom is in full swing.

    Danger Signs Seen in Vietnam Stimulus 2009

  • Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.

    America's Best Places For Alternative Energy 2008

  • The plane carrying the children was stopped moments before it was scheduled to take off from Abéché, a small, dust-choked city that is the base of operations for dozens of aid groups working in eastern Chad.

    Aid: yer doin' it wrong (special french edition) 2007

  • The plane carrying the children was stopped moments before it was scheduled to take off from Abéché, a small, dust-choked city that is the base of operations for dozens of aid groups working in eastern Chad.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • After all the midnight births, the subzero feedings, the dust-choked days of gathering and herding.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

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