Word: earthen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spotless. I stopped at one house where a man was digging at some newly-sprouted crops that popped out of well-groomed furrows. In the small yard adjoining the house there were a couple of pigs eating out of a feeding trough. In the corner was a large, hemispherical earthen oven, where the farmer's wife baked bread. A pile of freshly-cut eucalyptus wood lay next to the oven. The man, very small and with a rough wizened face, had walked up to within a few yards of me and stopped, his wooden hoe in hand. I indicated...
...floodwaters have risen in North Viet Nam's Red River, so has the burgeoning controversy over whether the U.S. is deliberately bombing the ancient, intricate, 2,500-mile network of earthen dikes in the delta, where 15 million North Vietnamese peasants live. The U.S. has admitted that some dikes near military targets have been damaged accidentally, but insists that the dikes themselves were never targets for American bombs. Last week the debate took a new twist, raising the question of whether U.S. bombers are dropping delayed-action bombs, which would have the effect of hindering repairs. The answer from...
...about the war in Viet Nam, where the rival armies remained locked in a bitter, seesaw battle for Quang Tri city. The accusation was serious, since nearly 15 million peasants live in the Red River Delta, whose floodwaters are controlled by a centuries-old, 2,500-mile labyrinth of earthen dikes (TIME, July 31). In the virtual absence of uncontestable firsthand information, however, the shouting of partisans all but drowned out the testimony of witnesses...
...metropolitan area, each stirring concern that another major upheaval might be imminent. At least 60,000 valley residents whose homes lie below Van Norman Reservoir were ordered to stay away from their neighborhoods. Much of the restraining clam's concrete facing had slipped beneath the water, and its earthen backing had developed fissures. With each new shock-one reached a magnitude of 5.7-residents feared that 6 billion gallons of water might burst into the valley. The slow task of emptying the 100-ft.-deep reservoir into the normally dry Los Angeles River began so that the dam could...
...next night I left the village and, on foot and by car in the rain, was led to a small factory. Inside, the soldiers found several boards and laid them on the earthen floor as my bed. Drenched by the rain, I lay down and tried to sleep. The boards rattled beneath me as I quivered from the cold. One of the soldiers fetched a blanket from his pack and wrapped it around me. As I drifted into sleep, the ground again shook beneath me, and then again. It was the rumble of bombs from...