Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rumors, officially denied in London, that Prime Minister Edward Heath will soon impose direct rule from London on the embattled province. This would hardly change the realities in Belfast. "We're already so restricted," one Ulster official complained, "that we have almost to phone London for permission to flush the toilets." But direct rule would amount to a confession that efforts at political reform had not worked as effectively as had violence...
Weddings always bring problems. For the marriage of Pakistan President Yahya Khan's son in Karachi last week there was the need to flush the cobras out of the garden. The task required the blandishments of eight snake charmers. Three cobras were captured-one of them eleven feet long...
...sweats for hours in jampacked trains and buses or bounces over potholed roads, and as he peers with smarting eyes through the ubiquitous smog. The Japanese are somewhat shamefaced that while Paris has had a complete sewage system for 200 years, only 9.2% of Japanese homes boast flush toilets. That total includes even Tokyo, whose 11.4 million residents account for one-tenth of the country's population. "We have lacked investment in social-overhead capital," says Sato, "and this is a good moment to improve that...
...after day, residents and industries in the Chicago area flush 1.5 billion gallons of raw wastes into the city's sewers -out of sight and mind. The flushings become the metropolitan sanitary district's Sisyphean task; the engineers must not only treat the ceaseless torrents of raw sewage but also find some place to put the day's residues-and space for such byproducts is limited. Yet Chicago now seems to have solved the dilemma with such practical and ecological wisdom that its program may well become a model for other cities while incidentally and fortuitously reclaiming...
...Houriet reports, was Oz, a fantasy-ridden experiment near Meadville, Pa., which featured daily readings from Dr. Seuss, Winnie the Pooh and (naturally) The Wizard of Oz. Meadville's citizens, at first tolerant, gradually turned against Oz, largely because of the commune's lack of concern with flush toilets and regular baths. Once, Houriet reports, an Ozite named Patty-Pooh tried to "vibe away" unfriendly visitors by "performing a nude dance on the farmhouse roof. Of course," he adds, "it had the opposite effect...