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> Out here in the savage west, a 'dust-up' is the way one politely refers to > a > serious confrontation. When someone gets shot, that is killed, they been > 'dusted.' That's interesting, Stephen. John Brunner uses "dusted" in that way in the SF novel _The Shockwave Rider_. I'd always assumed (Brunner is a Brit) that it was a term he'd coined, *from "dust up", etc., but maybe he had the sense you draw attention to there in mind. R.