TELEVISION HISTORY
The first program to incorporate this mirthful addition in the finished product was "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950
canned laughter
Trousers sections
pants parts
In the Bible God tells this person "For dust thou art & unto dust shalt thou return"
Adam
The Libyan Desert is a portion of this much larger desert
the Sahara
Jowly Winston Churchill was nicknamed the "British" this, a breed of dog he owned
Bulldog
This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning
HBO (Home Box Office)
The poorer quality Appaloosa
a worse horse
Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog"
The Grapes of Wrath
Greek & Turkish are the principal languages of this Mediterranean island nation
Cyprus
In 2019 Lori Lightfoot took over as mayor of Chicago from this man, "Rahmbo"
Rahm Emanuel
The first live nationwide color TV broadcast was of this event on California streets January 1, 1954
the Rose Parade
Hobbit homeland beach
Shire shore
Lucas Beauchamp, a character in this southern author's "Intruder in the Dust", is also in his story collection "Go Down, Moses"
Faulkner
A 2010 agreement between Russia & this country splits control of the Barents Sea nearly in half
Norway
"Snarlin' Arlen" was the nickname of Arlen Specter, a long-time senator from this state
Pennsylvania
For years, Americans had two events each Sunday--church & the show hosted by this man who brought many new artists into their homes
Ed Sullivan
A desolate, unornamented pile of pancakes
a stark stack
This title man is described as a "limping lump o' brick-dust" in a Rudyard Kipling poem
Gunga Din
Around 1979 this Mexican state on the Pacific dropped "Norte" from its name
Baja
This senator remembered in history for a series of debates was nicknamed "The Little Giant"
(Stephen A.) Douglas
A 1996 law mandated all TVs have this chip to help parents control kids' viewing, but it was never used much
a V-chip
The press agent carries a personal bottle of booze
flack flask
A line from Eliot's "The Waste Land" gave this British novelist the title "A Handful of Dust"
Evelyn Waugh
The alliterative lion of this Swiss city commemorates Swiss Guards who died in the French Revolution
Lucerne
Harkening back to the Ottoman Empire, "Sultan" is the nickname critics have given this current head of state
President Erdoğan of Turkey