Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Harem of Topkapi were mainly a matter of bed and bored. One 17th-century sultan, aptly called Ibrahim the Mad, became so bored that he spent much of his time tossing gold coins to the fish in the Bosporus alongside the Topkapi Palace. One day, harem-scare-em Ibrahim ordered his 1,001 concubines trussed, weighted and tossed into the sea-and, of course, replaced. But between fits of madness, Ibrahim and the 24 other sultans who occupied Topkapi until the 1850s turned the palace into a gem of art and architecture...
While Con Ed's research indicates that its first plant has caused "biologically insignificant" damage to date, the company has actually had to shut it down on occasion to clean water intake pipes clogged with fish stew. To scare fish away from the pipes, Con Ed has unsuccessfully tried electric screens, night lights and noisemakers. What would satisfy critics of the plant is for the company to find a way not to use Hudson River water at all. But Con Ed says such a solution-if possible-would be prohibitively expensive...
...Scare Story. One reason for the delay is jurisdictional confusion within Washington's bureaucracy. Officials cannot agree whether bottled water is a "food" under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration or should more properly be considered part of a community's water supply and therefore in the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency. A bill pending in Congress, sponsored by Democratic Representative John S. Monagan of Connecticut, would help solve the dilemma by giving the EPA authority to set uniform standards for all bottled water...
...health and contribute only to the water's distinctive taste. Says Fred H. Jones, executive director of the American Bottled Water Association: "We're concerned that some small bottler may bottle up some impure water and get some people sick." Many bottlers fear that a single severe scare story could send the entire industry down the drain...
...clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector in Boonville had offered to buy as a relic...