Word: elme
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...talk ranged over a variety of personal concerns-the shading elm tree in the front yard that had to come down, a son who seldom came to visit, all the small but vital concerns of an old woman in a house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author...
...walled yard had the air of an ancient red brick city under siege. White sheets emblazoned with STRIKE in bold red letters hung from the windows of freshman dormitories and classroom buildings. Strike posters and copies of the antiadministration underground paper Old Mole were stapled to the venerable elm trees and pasted to the great door and massive columns of Memorial Church...
Pesticides such as DDT, parathion, aldrin and dieldrin are both ally and enemy to man. The chemicals annihilate predators: the aphids that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals...
...expected, however, that the march will have little effect and that Volpe will order construction on the highway very soon after taking office. Volpe has been an opponent of the second hearing proposal for a long time and an outspoken supporter of the Brookline-Elm Street route for the Inner Belt...
Cambridge has been attempting to block the Brokline-Elm Street route on the grounds that it will cause widespread displacement of families, destruction of scarce low-income housing, and will create a permanent barrier through the middle of Cambridge...