Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their last days in other ways. With temperatures hovering around zero, he dashed each evening from his office to the steaming swimming pool. One night he invited a middle-aged White House elevator operator to join him; the man could not swim, but he plunged in anyway, stood shoulder deep in the water, and can now tell his friends about the time he splashed around in the pool with the President. With four other couples, all old friends, the Fords spent their final weekend at snow-covered Camp David, where a log fire crackled in the huge stone fireplace...
...citizens responded, some wholeheartedly, others grudgingly, life faltered and changed in many regions of the U.S. The Labor Department estimated that some 500,000 workers had been laid off in plants shut down by fuel shortages. Next summer's crops could be damaged by the effects of the deep-reaching cold on the soil, and the lack of moisture-bearing snow in the West...
...gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with government aid, told McWhirter: "There was enough left over from the compensation to build the big Buddha image at the temple. Officials seem more polite. This village is ready...
Pipeline Network. It could hardly help having a serious impact. Natural gas is the nation's second most widely used fuel, after oil, accounting for 30% of total U.S. energy needs. Drawn from deep deposits in Texas, Louisiana and a dozen other states, the gas is distributed to customers across the nation through a vast underground pipeline network that is 649,000 miles long and is operated by 141 major transmission companies. The fuel they supply is the source of heat for half the nation's homes and provides 40% of the energy used by industry...
...recent election of a pro-statehood candidate, Carlos Romero Barcelo, did not send Washington a mandate for statehood. The vote was probably more a rejection of the incumbent's failure to solve the economic problems, than a positive reaction to Romero's talents. In fact, despite the deep penetration of American styles and institutions and goods into Puerto Rico, there was a minority majority against statehood in the plebescite ten years ago, and there has always been a sizeable majority of intransigent opponents of any association with the United States...