Word: gravel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alaska Lands. A bill to protect some 100 million acres in Alaska against commercial exploitation died when Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, an all-or-nothing conservationist, walked out on meetings seeking a compromise between a strong House bill and a weaker measure in the Senate. The fight is expected to be joined again in the next Congress. But Congress did approve a $1.2 billion parks bill-dubbed "parksbarrel" by opponents-authorizing more than 128 projects from New Jersey to California...
...martial law in twelve major cities and bruising confrontations between military units and Iranian Muslims. But twelve hours after the disaster struck, as flights of C-130 aircraft set up a relief shuttle from Tehran, there was no enmity between soldiers and dissidents. Landing on a hastily bulldozed gravel strip that was almost obliterated by blowing dust, the C-130s unloaded medical teams, rescue units, field hospitals, food, medicine, blankets and water. By week's end almost 800 civilians who required major surgery had been airlifted to Tehran and other cities, while from Tabas, air force helicopters fanned...
...book-publishing industry, which relies on newspaper reviews to boost sales, has taken to such alternative vehicles as television and radio spots; Simon & Schuster President Richard Snyder can now be heard on radio peddling his wares in much the same way that gravel-voiced Tom Carvel sells the products of his ice cream shops. But authors of forthcoming books are woebegone. Linley Stafford, a publicist whose first book, One Man's Family, will be published by Random House on Oct. 13, has postponed the press party ("How can you have one without a press?" his agent asked). Says Stafford...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
Charles Schulz, creator of Snoopy: "We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel...