Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Truman threatened to use atomic bombs if the Soviets did not withdraw their troops from Iran. In 1950, with American marines trapped by Chinese forces at Korea's Chosin reservoir. Eisenhower, trying to force a settlement in Korea, threatened the Chinese with nuclear weapons...
...prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir. Bragged an F.M.L.N. commander: "The puppet forces of the dictatorship do not have a coherent strategy to combat our forces. They are confused as to whether they should concentrate and fight us or disperse into smaller groups...
Although these journals appear to be an in exhaustible reservoir for the untainted adulation which football is lacking, a close reading shows them to be quite a bit more calculating than what might first be presumed. Mastheads reveal that often the same group of people edit two or three different magazines, some of which unexplainably provide altogether different predictions and analysis. And these predictions sometimes are quite non-committal, apparently to avoid direct confrontation with highly partisan potential readers...
...heart surgery, returned to Washington. "The sky was dark with Air Force planes bringing back Senators, kicking and screaming," Helms complained. Senators finally strangled the filibuster for good by an 81-to-5 vote, then passed the gas tax, 54 to 33. Baker, who had triumphed because of the reservoir of good will he had built up with both Democrats and Republicans, slipped back to his office to celebrate with a glass of champagne. He and Minority Leader Robert Byrd put in a joint call to the President to say that they had passed the gas tax, just as House...
...Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts became so acidic that it dissolved water conduits and fixtures, producing unhealthy levels of lead in drinking water. Cost since that time for neutralizing chemicals: $1 million annually. In Maine, where the measured acidity of rainfall has increased 40 times in the past 80 years, high levels of toxic mercury, lead and aluminum in acidified streams have killed or deformed salmon embryos. The problem is spreading to other parts of the country. Damage from acid rain has been reported in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida and California...