Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bristol, a daily torrent of 50 million gallons of wastes poisoned the once sweet Avon River. At Blackpool, raw sewage spewed directly into the Irish Sea. Eleven acres of low-lying country by the Ray River were flooded with Swindon's flushings, which then seeped perilously close to Oxford's water supply. In London, most of the city's daily output of 570 million gallons was kept under control, but two tributaries of the Thames flowed with filth...
When he finally made the Tonight Show, he remembered all his own rules as he rendered his version of the discovery of America. Chris warns Isabella, "If I don't discover America, there ain't gonna BE no Ray Charles." Isabella then shrieks in the now-famous falsetto, "Chris gonna FIND Ray Charles." Since then Flip has sharpened and refined his style, which leans primarily on storytelling and body action rather than zingy punch lines. Even with all of the mugging, eye rolling and Negro dialect, Wilson's routines are inoffensive and totally devoid of racial rancor...
Undaunted, Lowell's Ray Stich piloted a surprising single-wing attack through the line. Greg Williamson scored two touchdowns for the winners...
Also selected to the ECAC first team was Columbia linebacker Ray Ramsey, who made several important tackles in the Lion's victory over Harvard...
When the fires were spent, people returned to the blackened foundations of their houses. In Chatsworth, Mrs. Ray Klein shoveled through the ashes of what was once her bedroom, sifting until she came up triumphantly with a diamond ring. Many of those who had been burned out were determined to build again on the same sites, though they know that by a perversity of nature the fires, having burned off so much ground cover, were likely to bring on a disaster of floods...