Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was before hair began to accumulate on our shower drain. Now, after three months of living with The Mound, I am beginning to understand some fundamentals of American economic policy. Problems may be so obvious and so disgusting that nobody dares do anything about them...
...then The Mound began to grow. And grow. Soon we had to step around the drain while taking a shower. And when we missed...never mind. I don't want to think about...
...rooming group thus faced the inevitable decision: Would we continue to ignore The Mound or would we clean it up? Our decision was much like the federal government's choice in recent years: Ignore the problem...
...passed the buck of who was responsible for The Mound, just as Congress and the president have accused one another of responsibility for the national debt...
...when the Assyrians, badly overextended, were taken by surprise by the combined armies of the Medes, the Babylonians and the Scythians. Nimrud was overrun. The palace caught fire, and its ceilings collapsed. Over time, the Tigris changed course, and the glorious ziggurat was reduced to a formless mound...