Word: bargemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreman reporting to his jovial boss; a bus queue enlivened by a quarrel; an earnest job applicant getting the works. Thus summarized the sketches sound unexciting, but they completely engaged the viewers' attention, and were beautifully interspersed with filmed shots of London and Londoners-old ladies gossiping, Thames bargemen clowning when the camera was on them, swinging birds in a discotheque...
...bargemen's forebodings, inland waterways traffic seems sure to grow. The Corps of Engineers is about to spend $1.2 billion to open up a 516-mile stretch of the Arkansas River between the Mississippi and Catoosa, Okla., and is planning to connect the Tennessee and the Warrior-Tombigbee river systems. Mark Twain would be impressed by that one: to cut the connecting channel, the engineers are considering atomic blasting...
...goes down the drain, bubbling on and on through rivers and lakes and often seeping through the earth from septic tanks to well water (where its foamy presence may be a valuable warning that sewage is seeping in too). European waterways also foam with detergent suds, and German bargemen on the Neckar have complained that 3-ft. fleeces of the stuff are a menace to navigation...