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dust bowl

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dust bowl
n.
A region reduced to aridity by drought and dust storms.
[After the Dust Bowl, region in the south-central US that was stricken with drought in the 1930s.]
dust bowl
Noun
a dry area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion
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Noun1.dust bowldust bowl - a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth
Great Plains, Great Plains of North America - a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
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9 quake that hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906, occurred in the same place today, it would rank as the United States' costliest natural disaster--with the possible exception of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, says Vranes.
When budgeting for quakes, dig deep by Science News
We may know something about the Dust Bowl, soup lines, and other aspects of that terrible time, but perhaps we know little about the coal miners of West Virginia and how they survived when the mines were closed.
Laskas, Gretchen Moran. The miner's daughter by Rosser, Claire / Kliatt
Her solo to his Dust Bowl Ballads (1941) used a limp fedora almost like a partner as she beat away at imaginary dust.
Sophie Maslow (1911-2006) by Hering, Doris / Dance Magazine
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