Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MODERN American speech, while not always clear or correct or turned with much style, is supposed to be uncommonly frank. Witness the current explosion of four-letter words and the explicit discussion of sexual topics. In fact, gobbledygook and nice-Nellyism still extend as far as the ear can hear. Housewives on television may chat about their sex lives in terms that a decade ago would have made gynecologists blush; more often than not, these emancipated women still speak about their children's "going to the potty." Government spokesmen talk about "redeployment" of American troops; they mean withdrawal. When...
...clear for the Israeli tankers. The next night, landing craft carried them without opposition across the gulf to the Egyptian coast. Laden with extra fuel, extra guns and extra ammunition, the Israelis swiveled off the landing craft before dawn. They achieved total surprise and inflicted heavy casualties on their 40-mile sweep down the coast. As the convoy moved south through El Hafayer, trucks pulled off the two-lane asphalt highway with friendly waves to make way for what appeared
...clear day, viewers atop New York's Empire State Building can see an area that is governed by 1,400 political units-states, cities, counties and townships, plus scores of special-purpose districts that control everything from airports to garbage. The U.S. has 80,000 such "governments," many of them created to focus efficiently on narrow problems. In pursuing their own interests, these bodies often worsen environmental problems, such as smog and dirty rivers, that cut across political boundaries, Responsibility is fragmented in a maze of separate, unequal and overlapping jurisdictions...
...back from Mars by the twin Mariner probes. Hurriedly examining the readings from his infrared spectrometer on board Mariner 7, Chemist George C. Pimental had dramatically announced that the Martian atmosphere probably contained traces of ammonia and methane, two gases produced on earth by bacterial decay. The implication was clear: there might well be micro-organisms on Mars...
...Northwest Passage was a commercially practical proposition-though that was before the vessel got stuck in the ice in the McClure Strait. The Manhattan broke loose 24 hours later and headed toward the Beaufort Sea. Should the Manhattan's voyage be successful, the way will then be clear to bring Alaska's wealth of iron, zinc, copper and sulphur readily to market as well...