Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reportedly filled in these fields with compressible slag after a flood in 1956, the fill has sunk so far into the former tidal area that drainage pipes, 30 feet apart, are almost literally supporting the entire area. Instead of allowing rainwater to drain off, the silt serves as a reservoir where seagulls have been known to nest...
...University will lease the Reservoir land, between Sacra- and Garfields Streets, to the bridge YMCA for use as a super- playground, it was learned replay...
...immense importance as consumers. Adolescent purchases now total $10 billion a year and the average teenager has $500 at his disposal annually--four times as much as in 1945. Quoting a trade journal, Packard suggested that "teenagers do not respect authority but do respect advertising." They constitute a great reservoir of gullibility, he maintained...
Crimson hockey suffers from a disease that afflicts few other sports at the College--an overabundance of good, consistent athletes. The Freshman team contributes even more to the reservoir...
...middle of a three-week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America...