Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sand, which would have allowed chemicals to filter down to the aquifer lying 80 ft. or less below the surface. Therefore, Hooker is lining the vault with 10-ft.-thick walls of compacted clay. The vault will rise five stories into the air. "A monument to stupidity," snorts Marion Dawson, a leader in the long fight to force Hooker to clean...
...food prices is caused primarily by the summer's drought in the South and parts of the Midwest. In many sections of the country, the average temperatures ranged six to eight degrees above normal, and rainfall was less than half the usual amount. Says Agriculture Department Economist J. Dawson Ahalt: "If you're a farmer in Arkansas or eastern Nebraska, this drought has knocked hell out of you, really cut your yields by half in some instances...
...near Piltdown, England, an amateur fossil hunter named Charles Dawson "found" the first of two skulls with a human-like cranium and an apelike jaw. The find was hailed as the missing link between man and ape; for years Piltdown man occupied a prominent place in paleontology. Finally in 1953 he was unmasked: the remains were nothing more than a fabrication of modern human and ape bones doctored to give them the look of antiquity...
...masterminded the hoax? Dawson was suspected, but some scholars doubt that he had the skills or materials to carry it out. In Natural History, Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes that the young Teilhard, then a student in England and Dawson's friend, could easily have supplied some bones. One bit of evidence: a Teilhard letter written years later to the British scholar Kenneth Oakley, in which the priest commits what Gould calls a "fatal error." Teilhard says that Dawson personally brought him to the site where the second skull was found. "This cannot be," says Gould, because Dawson...
...Dawson said that this has been the tradition in contract law in England and the United States for nearly 200 years...