Word: cadiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...layout was accordingly named in his honor. Paxton's mother's family also settled early in the Bluegrass state, although, they did not take to golf with quite as much gusto. His mother's ancestors crossed the Cumberland Gap in a covered wagon and settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, which is pronounced...
...minutes, hovering and circling over the sea, French navy helicopters dropped load after load of depth charges. They were striking back at a very real enemy, the wreck of the American-owned supertanker Amoco Cadiz, which had leaked oil for two weeks after history's biggest spill...
...rising national clamor for action, officials ordered in the choppers. That way, at least, all the oil would finally be released and there would be no prospect of months and perhaps even years of continued oil trickles along northern Brittany's already badly tarred beaches, as the Amoco Cadiz slowly broke...
...work gangs attempted to scoop up the sticky scum on beaches and in inlets, dismayed marine biologists and fishermen were already giving a fairly bleak assessment of the long-term damage. Because the Amoco Cadiz's oil is lighter and was released closer to the French shore than that from the Torrey Canyon, which blackened the English coast a decade ago, it had spread faster and penetrated deeper into Brittany's many inlets and estuaries. Even farther out to sea many food fish, except possibly sole, which stay near the bottom, will be contaminated. The season...
...miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther to the east as well. By any measure, the spill was the biggest of all time and perhaps the most devastating. At week's end it appeared that most of the Amoco Cadiz's 220,000 tons of crude oil-twice the amount released by the infamous Torrey Canyon eleven years ago-would ooze from the American-owned supertanker, which lay broken in two after going aground off the storm-tossed Brittany peninsula...