Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brown mud from the Susquehanna River has now dried to a white dust. It settles over everything and rims the eyes red. Only 10% of downtown Wilkes-Barre, once under 5 ft. of water, has reopened for business. Piles of debris still clutter the streets. Skulls and limbs washed from the Forty Fort Cemetery are still turning up in backyards. Block after block of houses have been gutted so that you can see from the front yard through to the back. Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked mud...
...debris thrown into the streets tells the story in chapters. The first thing out of the house was the mud. Next went the stuffed furniture, ruined by mildew. People were still trying to save their small appliances after they had scrapped televisions, washers, refrigerators. When they realized they couldn't fix the toasters and blenders either, they too went out onto the street. Then they stripped the wet plaster and finally the flooring, till only the shell remained...
...Yard is also the place to find yourself in a room previously inhabited by a famous alumnus. As the fall progresses and the grass gets worn, as the snow-grown mud of winter treks into your hallway, respite might be taken by remembering that illustrious predecessors lived through it all years...
...Defense sources have confirmed to TIME'S Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken that U.S. planes are in fact dropping the Mark 36 delayed-action bomb on North Viet Nam. The magnetic Mark 36, which has extended tail fins to keep it from sinking too deeply in water or mud, is dropped on rivers and canals in an effort to stop the flow of barges carrying military supplies. The same type of bomb, with its fins retracted to effect a sharper landing, is dropped on road junctions. With its retracted fins, it sinks deep into the earth. In addition...
...slowly subsided, the toll in lives, refugees and property damage made it clear that the storm almost certainly added up to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. At least 109 bodies had been found and rescue workers expected to find more in the rushing waters and mud-caked debris of southeast Florida and a five-state area (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania) of the East. At least 387,700 persons were evacuated in Agnes' corkscrew wake. Property damage was put at upwards of $1.4 billion. A total of 131 counties and 25 cities...