Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must have been something like the hustle & bustle around Noah's Ark when the rains came. This Ark was a bulky, 175-ft. converted Navy patrol boat in the Oakland (Calif.) estuary. Last week she was abuzz with last-minute flurry. Women hung their clothes out to dry on a line running from mast to smokestack, crewmen tested ropes and slapped on final licks of paint, children swarmed everywhere, while men struggled to set up a wire screen at the ship's sides to keep them from falling overboard...
...Texarkana, Ark., Allentown, Pa., Monroe, La., Springfield, Mo., Meriden, Conn., Lorain, Ohio, and in Huntington, Beckley and Charleston...
...Stinks. In Little Rock, Ark., the Sanitation Department recorded the reason for a worker's resignation after he had put in one day on the job: "Said garbage smells...
First Things First. In Little Rock, Ark., after drawing a life term for his part in a robbery killing, Dan Darville was asked if he had any questions, replied: "Yes sir, judge. What'll I do now to get out right shortly...
...Days. In Blytheville, Ark., the city council decided to crack down on unlicensed dogs, hired a dogcatcher, who could not work until a pound was built, erected a portable pound without having a location for it, no sooner parked the pound behind the City Hall than the dog-catcher quit, hired a new dogcatcher who snagged five dogs which could not be tagged because the city clerk ran out of licenses...