Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, oil workers had managed to seal the well off Santa Barbara with concrete, making it finally as dead as the multitude of creatures, from sea urchins to seals, that it had doomed. Facing Union was a brace of lawsuits, notably one for $1.3 billion on behalf of all damaged parties, and another by California's attorney general. During eleven days, the well had spouted more than 200 thousand gallons. Drilling will doubtless resume quickly, but it may take years before the ecological balance of Santa Barbara bay is restored...
...pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others; the new men did not even bother to wipe the blood from the inside of the tank. The house Greenway took shelter in is empty now, and a woman nearby shrieks at a visitor: "All dead, all dead! Go away...
Idealistic young people chanting "shut up and drop dead" were interrupted four times by Vice President Humphrey. The interruptions were part of a speech which the youths charged had been "planned...
...over an 82-year history, its guiding Interstate Commerce Act has become clotted with 200 amendments that run for 425 pages. Johnson Administration economists, testifying in Senate hearings last summer, argued that the ICC was fated to be "a dead hand on industry" and ought to be abolished. Another criticism came last month from the Department of Transportation, which, in a study of rail-merger patterns, scolded the commission for paying scant attention to broad economic questions and for rubber-stamping in "a rather random manner" individual mergers as they come along...
...coldest ever endured. Temperatures averaged 4° below zero in January. People died in their apartments, and weakened relatives left them wherever they were-in a bed, at a table, in a chair near a cold stove. Men and women dropped in the streets, dead of hunger and exhaustion, and sometimes their bodies lay untouched for weeks. When they were finally hoisted onto trucks, one observer recalls, they were so frozen that "they gave a metallic ring." The silence of the city was broken only by bouts of German shellfire and, in winter, by the squeak of children...