Word: clog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...
...viewer. A lot of it showed that besides being beautiful, plastics could be a lot of fun. One soft polyurethane foam sphere (37" diameter) turns into a chair when you sit on it. A small gallery has clothes and jewelry--everything from a very uncomfortable pair of clear lucite clog-sandals, to a Medusa-esque necklace of fluorescent acetate strips. More for Christmas giving were the translucent amber boots (vinylite) by Herbert Levine, who supposedly manufactures for I. Miller, and chunky, colorful Plexiglas rings, available at Bonniers. And for would-be travelers, there's a portable polyethylene toilet...
...streams; an antilitter campaign depicts a community overrun by snorting pigs. In the "Give a Damn" campaign for the New York Urban Coalition, a black narrator suggests to white viewers: "Send your kid to a ghetto for the summer. Want to see the pool? C'mon. The kids clog up the sewer with garbage, open a hydrant . . . You don't want your kids to play here this summer? Then don't expect ours...
...street patterns of Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their way in and out of Boston. The numerous construction projects of the universities and private firms often make temporary changes in the traffic patterns necessary...
...withdraw within 3 months "if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country," This serious loophole should be remembered after the treaty has been endorsed, when the Soviet Union and the United States join to clog the newspapers with what Indian Ambassador Trivedi has called their "pious platitudes...