Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under a "drought bill" that grants regional authorities the power to ban nonessential uses of water, Welshmen have been forbidden to water lawns, wash cars or fill swimming pools. Anyone caught hosing his garden is subject to an $800 fine. Beginning last week, more than a million Welsh residents are getting water only between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., and this week some factories will go on compulsory half-rations. "There are no baths, and clothes don't get washed so often," says Cardiff Housewife Elizabeth Davies. "I used to use the washing machine every...
...cheerful sequence about the Washington Redskins' "over-the-hill gang" who are much livelier than the glum recruits at the Senior Bowl. The program's strength lies in such vignettes. The viewer may end up agreeing with the good doctor that the armored monsters who will fill the home screen in coming months are "just like human beings...
...generations of surgeons before him) had failed to notice was that one aspect of the abnormality was that normal features were present but at an unnatural angle. What he had to do, Millard reasoned, was to move the misplaced features down, put them in proper alignment, then fill the remaining triangular gap with tissue shifted from the opposite side of the cleft...
Within the limits of the existing Bermuda agreement, the airlines of both nations are free to schedule as many flights as they think they can profitably fill. (American flights are subject to review by the Civil Aeronautics Board and the State Department.) U.S. carriers-Pan American, TWA and National-now account for some 60% of total airline capacity between the U.S. and Britain. The British want to change this mix to equal shares-not by increasing the number of their flights but by getting Washington to force U.S. airlines to cut back. The British thus want to replace the Bermuda...
...Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche duBois fishes around for some bourbon to kill her jitters and pulls up with a bottle labeled "Southern Cheer." "How can that be?" she quips under her breath. You said it, Blanche--Southern gloom is the Williams world view, and you can fill yourself with three hours of it now at the Orson Welles...