Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house in the dark slash-pine woods near his peanut fields in sweltering Plains, Ga. The homey cookout was called partly to ease an ecological imbalance in the family pond. As often happens in politics and ponds, the larger fish were gobbling up the smaller fry, making the fishing hole unhealthy...
Desperate for a defense against insects, man began to develop chemical controls. During the late Middle Ages, people attempted to control tree-destroying insects by exposing the roots of afflicted trees, pouring in old wine lees and then closing the hole. Infusions of tobacco were used in France as early as 1690 to fight lace bugs on pear trees. Pyrethrum, a compound obtained from the chrysanthemum family, was used as far back as 1800 to kill fleas. Rotenone, which can be extracted from various plants, was introduced in 1848 to attack leaf-eating caterpillars. Synthetic insecticides were introduced during...
Emergency Session. One hole is that a handful of states (Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina and Ohio) allow state-chartered S & Ls to choose federal insurance, private insurance-or even no insurance. In Mississippi, eight S&Ls are uninsured; another 32 institutions doing about one-third of the S&L business in the state carry private insurance, most of it written by American Savings Insurance Co. The trouble began in early May, when two stockholders filed suit against the state's second largest S&L, the 47-branch Bankers Trust (which has no relation to the well-known...
...miles northeast of Idaho Falls. Standing on an observation platform overlooking the 3,000-ft.-long, 307-ft.-high earth-fill dam, Howard, a geography professor at Minot State College in North Dakota, began taking routine tourist pictures with his Yashica 35-mm. camera. As he watched, "that darn hole started growing-quite slowly at first-forming a small waterfall down on one side. It still looked like just a minor leak...
...Howard kept shooting the remarkable pictures on the following three color pages, the drama unfolded below him. Around 11 a.m. two "cat" operators, alerted to the trouble, drove their bulldozers down the slope of the dam and began trying to plug the leak by shoving boulders into the growing hole. As Howard recalled to Reporter Susan Snyder: "My wife was excited and my kids were crying because they thought that the world was coming to an end. It was really frightening. If I had had a weak heart, maybe it would have stopped." Now the big cat had stalled...