Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both ends of the field, the area directly in front of the goals became large puddles of mud. Known by the spectators as "The Puddle," the penalty areas looked more like the Charles River and had many of the characteristics of quicksand...
...Those were considerable. Explaining his struggle to deal with ego damage during the years of his failure and Barbra's tremendous success, Gould says: "First of all, I came to those years with a minimum of ego. I was fighting. The first time I saw Tarzan get stuck in quicksand, I got anxiety and used to walk around locked to make sure there was no quicksand. My analyst said I was a masochist...
...years. Water mains would burst, elevators stop and power lines topple. At least one of the area's 228 dams and reservoirs would give way. Countless Bay Area buildings would sink into the shifting alluvial soils on which they have carelessly been built; such soil can turn into quicksand during a quake. The entire region would be cut off from outside aid, as freeways, bridges and runways buckled and railway tracks twisted. Deaths would reach the hundreds-some say tens of thousands-and property damage some $30 billion...