Word: faucet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brook runs through the center of town, but there is nothing very melodious there. The government began building the township in the late '40s as a sort of dormitory-warehouse for black workers needed in Pretoria. The standard houses are four-bedroom huts, each with an outside water faucet next to the outdoor privy. For years the people shipped to Mamelodi were forbidden to own their homes or make improvements. That was supposed to make them look forward to eventual relocation to remote tribal homelands. Recently, the government has relaxed those restrictions; houses are being improved and a few streets...
...weeks ago a broken hot water faucet flooded the second floor bathroom. Students temporarily stopped the flooding by weighting down the faucet, said Douglas W. Marx...
Emergency maintenance men arrived as water leaked into the first-floor hallway. "They pulled out the pipe and ripped up the bathroom," Marx said. He added that "the bathroom was left a mess" for two weeks until maintenance men attached a new faucet...
...room in an expensive West African hotel has most of the amenities of Western accommodations. But the radio and television sets do not work, nor does the telephone. As for the hot-water faucet, it has never even been connected. A perfect symbol, our guide tells us, for the central contradiction of a continent: Westernization is only a facade that hides the "realities of Africa...
...serious clash over who controls the Guard, the Defense Department has the power of the purse on its side. "The Governors can't get too cocky," contends a Pentagon official, "or we'll shut off their faucet." Indeed, the Defense Department indirectly threatened to do just that last week. In an attempt to rally Governors and Congressmen against more defense budget cuts, the Pentagon raised the possibility that the National Guard would be seriously hurt by the reductions. For some 140,000 Guardsmen, that could mean unwelcome discharges and even more unwelcome weekends spent mowing the lawn at home rather...