Word: marinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closer look at three widely separated areas in which the topsy-turvy winter has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten citrus groves of central Florida, and San Francisco's Joseph Boyce explored nearby Marin County as the West's disastrous drought grew even worse. Their reports...
...West Coast, diverting winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin County, an affluent, scenic suburban area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco...
...Life. Marin has plenty of water -all the wrong kind. Its peninsula affords magnificent views of the Pacific, San Pablo Bay and Drakes Bay. But the county's fresh-water reservoirs are inadequate. For years the residents have been voting down bond issues that would have supplemented the reservoirs -partly on the theory that limiting water would be one way to restrict unwanted growth. But last week the water supply was so low that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between...
...have asked restaurants not to serve water with meals unless a diner insists. They figure it takes two glasses of water to wash each glass and estimate the savings-if all the restaurants in the state comply-at 1 million gallons a day. At the Taverna Yiasou Restaurant in Marin County, Manager Beth Taylor has gone even further: she has switched to paper plates, thus conserving the water normally used for 25 loads of dishes at each lunchtime...
...kiss or hug means one is "not relating." "Isolated individualism is out." says Davis. "Today separations are not allowed. Everyone is expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster's "Only connect!" From the hot tubs of Marin County to the baths of Esalen, the rule prevails: Whoever kisses you, you kiss back, lest you be thought to be uptight. At times, kissing carries a political message. Some feminists kiss other women on the lips in order to prove something about transcending sexuality. American men rarely kiss other men, unless...