Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tornadoes inflicted heavy fatalities in Oak Lawn, a southwestern suburb and in Belvidere, 65 miles northwest of Chicago. One person was killed in Chicago and another in suburban Stone Park...
...twisters apparently struck the Chicago area without warning. Several students were killed in Belvidere as they were boarding buses in a high school parking lot. A number of the dead in Oak Lawn had been out roller skating when the tornado struck...
Such action could scarcely come soon enough. Even if Great Lakes pollution ceased immediately and completely, Chemist Robert Rainey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports in a recent Science magazine article, it would still take the natural flow of water through the lakes a shockingly long time to purify them. Because they are relatively shallow, Lake Erie could purge 90% of its polluting wastes in about six years, Rainey calculates, and Lake Ontario in 20 years. But Lake Michigan would need 100 years to achieve the same degree of purity, and Lake Superior would not approach its pristine state until...
...civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
...pill for almost two years with no side effects, and it's much simpler than any other method I've tried." To the neurotics who complain that it is too difficult or too much trouble to take a pill a day, a 34-year-old mother in Oak Park, Mich., responds: "I have my hands full running after four little Indians, and if I had another I'd die. The mere thought of having an unwanted baby is enough to make me remember to take my pills...