Word: layers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...frantically to stem the surging Susquehanna-to no avail. When the river burst the sandbagged levee, an eight-foot wave surged through Wilkes-Barre's central business district. "My God," a volunteer wept, "we just couldn't do it." Finally, the water receded, leaving a three-inch layer of sour-smelling muck on everything it touched...
...Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann tore up much of the medieval town and started creating his city of symmetry, parks...
...power was off in Wilkes-Barre Thursday morning as the cars and trucks poured into town filled with clean-up crews and families nervously searching for their homes through streets suddenly unfamiliar. The powerless stoplights, coupled with a six-inch layer of brown sludge on the streets, made driving an eery adventure. At a few intersections, civilian deputies or grey-uniformed security police gestured rather futilely at the haggard drivers, but for the most part improvisation prevailed...
...Blackmun and the majority clung to Holmes' precedent. Said Blackmun: "There is merit in consistency, even though some might claim that beneath that consistency is a layer of inconsistency." The original ruling, he observed, had been upheld only nine years ago in a finding that "Congress had no intention of including the business of baseball within the federal antitrust laws." If any change is indicated, said Blackmun, "the remedy is for congressional, and not judicial action." Chief Justice Burger agreed and went further to urge, "It is time the Congress acted...
...jump on. Time after time, litter patients who have waited for hours in a sun of close to 100° are hoisted to the shoulders of their buddies. But then the chopper will zoom down, hover for ten seconds, and take off again, leaving the wounded with a new layer of the red Binh Long dirt in their wounds and another two hours to wait...