Word: litters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Litter Bugs. But the moon would never be the same again. Since it has no atmosphere to limit the motion of small particles, the radioactive residue from the explosion would be carried all over the lunar surface. When earth's scientists finally land on the moon, they would not be able to distinguish between its natural radioactivity, perhaps including material formed by cosmic rays hitting the airless surface, and the nuclear litter scattered by earth's vandals...
...named Djamila Bouhired sprawled in the narrow street, with a bullet wound in the shoulder. In her possession were various F.L.N. documents linking her to Yacef Saadi, the rebel "Captain of Algiers," who had been terrorizing the city with a rash of bombs planted in cafes, milk bars, and litter baskets...
Dead Letters. In Caldwell, Kans., six new refuse containers were repainted to read "Trash" instead of "Litter" after citizens insisted on posting mail in them...
...that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter of bare-bottomed children worry his body like jackal pups, then lose interest while a pig nuzzles the corpse. The narrator, a young farm girl, tumbles through her tale with savage glee, takes a sorrowful tone only when relating that, although old enough (14), she is not big enough...
...South Pole is not what it used to be. After 13 months of lavishly air-supplied U.S. occupancy, it has been described as "looking like a Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough...