Word: carp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rivers by drainage from junked electrical equipment. In few places were PCB levels higher than in the Hudson, where GE's two capacitor plants had been dumping them at the rate of about 30 lbs. per day since the early 1950s. In tests conducted last summer, striped bass, carp and other fish species were found to contain many times the allowed federal limit of 5 parts of PCBs per million. One eel was found to have 559.25 parts per million of the chemical-an amount so high that an adult who ate a 7 oz. portion would...
...doubles teams had much more success than the singles teams. Team captain Lissa Muscatine and Denise Thal, the fourth-seeded team, reached the semi-finals, where they were knocked off by the first-seeded team of Terry Carp and Lynn McLanahan of Princeton, 6-2, 7-5. Carp and McLanahan won the doubles tournament, downing Yale's Cynthia Hayden and Anne Seidler...
Writers often carp that most interviewers have seldom read their books. One guest on the Mike Douglas show was ready to accept the fact that his book had only been thumbed, but was surprised to see that the host's cue cards read: "That's interesting. Tell me about it." There are gaffs on even the largest, most thoroughly prepared programs. Interviewing Guy Lombardo about his book Auld Acquaintance, Jim Hartz of the Today show wanted to know how Brother Carmen was doing. "He passed away three years ago," answered...
Meanwhile, opposite number Rhodes had her hands full. With six minutes remaining in the half, Princeton applied tremendous pressure. Rhodes managed to flag down two Tiger drives ticketed for the goal before sophomore Terry Carp gave the visitors a 2-0 halftime lead. The left-halfback grabbed a loose ball in the middle of the circle, and fired a booming shot past the 'Cliffe defense...
Nine out of ten Americans lived on farms, grew their own corn and potatoes, made most of their own clothes. In the not-yet-crowded countryside and seashore, the woods were full of wild game and the waters of cod, carp, shad and salmon. Life was tough and dangerous but self-sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe...