Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disasters - the wreck of the tanker Tampico off Baja California and the rupture of the Torrey Canyon off the English coast, both of which devastated marine life. While the Tampico carried partially refined and relatively volatile diesel oil, the oil seeping up into Santa Barbara Channel was unrefined crude, which is considerably less lethal. More over, the Santa Barbara oil spill was spread over a vast expanse of sea and did not wash up onto the beaches immediately. Much of it lingered on the waves before wind and tide carried it ashore. In the interim, it apparently lost much...
...page 42) blew up Aramco's trans-Arabian pipeline linking Saudi Arabia and Lebanon across 25 miles of formerly Syrian, now Israeli-held territory. The Israelis, working with bulldozers to form earthen ramparts, then burning off the oil, had a difficult time keeping 8,500 tons of spilled crude from polluting their major water source in the north, the headwaters of the Jordan River...
There was a crude black hand sketched on the paper. Nothing, apparently, came...
...idle moment 700 years ago, two French monks began batting a ball around a monastery courtyard with crude wooden paddles. Thus was launched a royal rage. The impromptu game, which came to be known as court tennis, spread from cloister to castle and soon ranked as the foremost sport of kings. Louis X so overextended him self chasing balls that he became ill and died shortly after a match. Henry VIII was reportedly puffing around the court when aides informed him that Anne Boleyn's beheading had been accomplished. In 1641, Louis XIII of France defeated Philip...
...built a small museum in a blockhouse and has seen to it that the original wooden markers naming local roads and paths after fallen American soldiers were replaced by neat cement bornés bearing the information. In the village's Café du 6 Juin, under crude murals depicting the invasion, the locals sit over their Calvados and chat about the débarquement as if it had happened yesterday...