Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad to read that England has fewer polluted rivers [Dec. 25]. There was a time when observers reported seeing birds walking across the rivers on flotsam and jetsam, evoking the comment, "The quality of Mersey is not strained...
...designs of the new sculptured jewelry are beautiful [Dec. 18]. When I was 19, I too thought diamonds and other precious stones were gauche. Now I really wish I hadn't said dumb things like that...
...time President Nixon ordered the resumption of bombing over Hanoi and Haiphong on Dec. 18, B-52 Pilot Michael Heck, 30, had racked up more than 150 bombing missions during a number of stints in Indochina, a Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with eleven oakleaf clusters-and an impressive list of reservations about the Viet Nam War. With each new bombing run over the populated cities of the North, those doubts grew. Finally, on the day after Christmas, Heck announced to his wing commander that he could no longer in good conscience participate in the intensified bombing campaign...
...first five articles of a planned six-part series on the children's plight. Evans escaped jail when Britain's Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, tortuously ruled that the articles already printed were not in contempt of court, but the last planned one would be (TIME, Dec. 4). That decision silenced the Sunday Times. By then, London Weekend Television had interviewed parents, and editors around the country began to tell the story as reporters...
...school absenteeism has climbed as high as 20% in some sections of the state. Hawaiian authorities have noted a substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent complication of flu. In the same period, the county has filed 19 certificates in which the flu itself was listed as the cause of death...