Word: faucets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swarms with 8 million people. In the worst slums, where the population density is nearly 250,000 per sq. mi., the squalor and degradation match Calcutta's. Vast numbers of displaced fellahin spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite...
...would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
Some systems rated as "complex" and bought without competitive bids included faucet handles, window screens, recording tape, oil filters and lawnmowers. As a GAO study noted, lower prices could often be found just by looking in the Yellow Pages...
...tube with six-packs smeared Vaseline on their feet, to ward off blisters, and loped off for a 50-mile foot race. The temperature was close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water streamed over his head and down over his red fishnet shirt with its Boston Marathon patch...
...Some of them are really unbelievable. I got one from a women who was having an affair with her plumber just so she could get faucet handles at a reduced rate, she said...