Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three food lines to serve more than 10,000 meals a day. Some 2,500 South Dakota National Guardsmen pitched into the rescue and cleanup operation. Airmen from Ellsworth Air Force Base directed traffic and drove emergency vehicles. Boy Scouts helped clean the main streets, picking up litter. The entire staff of South Dakota Governor Richard Kneip moved into the city to help. Indian tribes from as far away as California contributed aid to residents of Rapid City's Red ghetto along the Rapid Creek. The Mennonites dispatched a special disaster team...
...hand near by. But that never happens. Instead, the Vietnamese choppers come streaking in low along the highway, and hover two or three feet above the ground while any soldiers aboard jump off; only the less seriously wounded have a chance to 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...
There have been changes in the face of the city itself. Going back to my neighborhood in the southwest corner of Moscow, I discovered that a storefront window left broken for more than a year had finally been replaced. The ever present litter had also been removed from behind the house and the roads repaved. An Austrian-built gas station and a large movie theater were attractive additions to the district...
...stick. Once, when the Rangers had a man advantage in the fourth game, Orr controlled the puck for 20 seconds, literally skating circles around the frustrated New York attackers. The New York fans, who lived up to their reputation by directing a steady stream of obscenities and litter at the Bruins, could think of no solution for Orr's heroics other than to urge the Rangers to "Hit him, stupid...
...above a bit of crankery on his own. He often wears his learning like a lead flak jacket and, like Pound, can be pithy to the point of incomprehensibility. But he has a contagious gusto and a splendid ear: the fragments of Pound's poetry that litter his pages are altogether dazzling and rich, "an anthology of rightnesses." Kenner knows some good sto ries too. He has one small masterpiece about T.S. Eliot, during an impossibly British lunch, majestically bringing his famous critical faculties to bear upon a Cheese...