Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hong Kong is suffering critically from the longest drought in years. The vital textile dyeing industry lost an estimated $1,700,000 in the first four months of this year. The only brewery faces curtailed production, and deliveries of soft drinks have fallen 60%. The reservoirs are so nearly dry that Hong Kong authorities last week imposed a strict new ration on the city: four hours of running water every other day. In private homes water is used first for bathing, then for washing clothes, finally for gardens. Ordinarily. Hong Kong buys 5 billion gallons of water annually from...
Urban has developed a surgical technique that goes farther than the conventional radical mastectomy. Since a set of lymph nodes lying near the sternum (breastbone) also acts as a reservoir for cancer cells, he removes, in appropriate cases, a thick section of chest in which these internal lymph nodes are embedded. Taken out are layers of skin, muscle and bone, and this creates a window near the center of the chest...
...hope all of you will visit our great state. I would like for you to see our beautiful new football stadium seating 46,000; our coliseum which will seat 10,000; I wish you could see the 35,000 acres of water known as the Great Pearl River reservoir, which will be completed within the next year and see the beautiful, scenic, historic Gulf Coast where we have the longest man-made beach in the world--A 23 mile sand beach...
...organized movement of garment workers out of the city's sweatshops and into the I.L.G.W.U. In 1922 it reached a circulation of 225,000. But already the future had begun to close in. Restrictive new immigration quotas, enacted in the 1920s, dammed the Forward's transatlantic reservoir of new readers. The annual flow of Jews to the U.S. ebbed from a 1921 high of 119,000 to 11,000, and then to 7,000. Old readers, schooled by the Forward, confidently plunged into the new life, leaving their instructor behind. The Forward discovered that, too often, to Americanize...
...sang Walther in the Met's production of Die Meistersinger, and should have won a pocketful of raves. In the demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...