Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feed. Then, because it is readily retained in fatty tissues, it accumulates and becomes concentrated in farm animals. Millions of chickens had to be destroyed last March in Mississippi because their feed had been contaminated with dieldrin. The chemical also washes into rivers and lakes and is ingested by fish. In fact, dieldrin is now found in nearly every edible product in the supermarket. A 1973 market-basket sampling by the Food and Drug Administration shows 96% of meat, fish and poultry was contaminated, and tests by the EPA have found that 99.5% of the population have some dieldrin...
...dominated news broadcasts. The stock market rallied again, with the Dow Jones industrials rising almost 24 points. Crowds gathered along the fences surrounding the White House; mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled the occupants of that chamber. "Mr. Speaker, a message from the President of the United States," he announced. In the stillness, a clerk read the anticlimactic title: a presidential report on "Government Services to Rural America...
...daylight a cold, nauseous light hangs about it; at night a devilish darkness settles upon it. You know, perhaps, the fried-fish shops that punctuate every corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...
...failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Illinois Republican Robert McClory supported the article, adding his name to the six other Republicans who had also turned against their party's President on the first article (Illinois' Tom Railsback, New York's Hamilton Fish Jr., Maryland's Lawrence Hogan, Virginia's M. Caldwell Butler, Maine's William Cohen and Wisconsin's Harold Froehlich). The vote on the abuse of powers article was thus...
...aides, also made him responsible. Alabama's Flowers stressed that the Constitution's "take care" clause carries an "affirmative duty" to see that laws are enforced and charged that Nixon had "failed to resist even the transgressions of these laws before his eyes and ears." Republican Fish noted that this clause also implies "policing your lieutenants...