Word: litters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with modern plastics is that they seem to be as immortal as they are useful. Plastic garbage bags litter Italy; Florida's discarded containers clog Bahama beaches. Each year one Kansas plant makes enough cellophane to wrap the earth with a 15-inch band 40 times; most of it becomes enduring garbage. Even getting rid of plastics can be dangerous. When polyvinyls like Saran Wrap are burned, they produce corrosive hydrochloric acid...
Some 1,000 students at Ohio's Cleveland State University worked throughout the city gathering litter and loading it into garbage trucks. They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River. Standing at the spot where Founding Father Moses Cleaveland allegedly landed in 1796, a student held aloft a plastic bag full of garbage and intoned: "This is my bag." Another student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake Erie. In Letcher County...
...Some demonstrators planned to camp in the park last night while others were expected to gather at about 8 a. m. for what Green termed "a be-in." including ecology teach-ins. performances by rock groups, street theatre, kite flying, and a clean-up of litter in the wooded 100-acre park...
Despite such flamboyant acts, Earth Day plans were largely calm and thoughtful. Technical schools set up detailed seminars in antipollution techniques. Guided "ecotours" of ravaged-and unspoiled-areas were arranged in many parts of the country. Boy and Girl Scouts were ready to quietly scour townships, picking up litter or washing public squares. In sum, the day was designed to demonstrate America's growing consciousness of ecology, hence of life itself. "It could," says Nelson, "kick off one of the toughest-and most expensive-political fights this country has ever seen...
...have cost Patton his command of the Seventh Army. Now that the film Patton, starring George C. Scott (TIME, Feb. 9), re-creates Kuhl's agony, the victim recalls: "As I started out of the [hospital] tent, he booted me in the fanny. They hid me in the litter bearers' tent until he left." Kuhl, who proved to have malaria, adds: "I think he was suffering a little battle fatigue himself...