Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later, the city of 48,500 (more than one-fourth Negro) nearly exploded anyway, when a force of 300 police and National Guardsmen rumbled into the 16-block riot area in a house-to-house search for 46 semiautomatic rifles that had been stolen from a nearby munitions plant. The searchers unearthed four weapons, and in the process left several houses a shambles...
Last week, Key West became the first U.S. city to get its entire freshwater supply from the sea when the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission dedicated the world's largest single-unit desalting plant, a gleaming $3.3 million facility that can produce up to 2,620,000 gallons a day. The plant uses the so-called "flash" process, by which heated sea water is forced through a series of low-pressure chambers until it vaporizes into steam, which, in turn, condenses into pure water-much as steam condenses on the surface of a tea kettle. Fifteen years ago, desalination cost...
...parts of Los Angeles will start getting converted sea water from a nuclear-powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...Paraná, third biggest river in South America after the Amazon and the Orinoco, is being harnessed by two dams costing an estimated $700 million. The first power plant to hum will be at Jupiá, where next June three generators will go into action. After that, others will be added every year until, by 1972, 14 are producing 100,000 kw. each. Thirty-four miles upstream, work has begun on the Ilha Solteira Dam, whose 20 turbines will produce 160,000 kw. apiece when they become fully operative...
King of Hearts. Provincial France. World War I. Retreating Germans plant a time bomb in a town square, preparing to explode it at midnight when Allied troops arrive. To foil the Boche plan, a Scottish regiment sends in a wide-eyed private (Alan Bates), who finds the town empty save for the inmates of a lunatic asylum. Spilling out of their bin and into the town, they find an abandoned circus with enough period costumes to outfit nine road companies of Marat-Sade...