Word: littered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days before a plane was due to take them home, Solecki and Colleague Bert Salwen decided to prospect a knoll that looked like just the kind of place a caribou hunter might stand, with a sweeping view of the mountain valley. They were right. Half-hidden in a litter of rocks, they found 25 "choppers"-crudely edged stones with which the first visitors from Asia skinned their catch 10,000 years...
...make one of a characteristic litter...
...rockets. Cargo ships will home in on the beacon and land their loads within half a mile of it. When all essential articles have arrived safely, the colonists will follow two by two, like the animals entering Noah's ark. Their first job will be to assemble the litter of cargo and empty vehicles into connected habitations that can be filled with air from earth...
...road-and a National Safety Council compulsion to predict the number of travelers who will never get home. The ghoulish guess on highway carnage resounds on TV and radio, runs in routine lament through endless headlines and holiday editorials. Observing tradition, the Safety Council predicted that 450 corpses would litter U.S. highways during the four-day July 4 weekend. By July 5, the estimate proved conservative: 509 car riders had been killed, and "a new record" set. Lamented Safety Council Vice President George C. Stewart last week: "One of the most tragic weekends in our history...
...colonies, Madagascar seemed to have had the most fun with the colonials. In one sculpture, four small natives are seen carrying a litter on which a French official sits calmly reading; the colonial stiff upper lip has never been done better. Another artist portrays an official's wife in a way that Madame would never have imagined herself. She is shown staring vacuously from under a parasol-the eternal Mrs. Blankbrain herself...