Word: septic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mobile Homes lot on Highway 280 in Phenix City, Ala. "I'm not coming up till gas prices come down," said Digger. Then, wearing a T shirt and pajama bottoms, he climbed into his temporary coffin (6 ft. long and 32 in. wide and high, with a septic tank below and a viewing periscope above that doubled as a dumbwaiter for Digger's food). He was covered by 6 ft. of earth and 4 in. of concrete. Two telephones, a radio and a television, as well as the periscope, connected him to the outside world...
...Hough, editor of the Vineyard Gazette, denounced McDonald's as "a symbol of the asphalt-and-chrome culture." Warned Hough: "Its coming means that we will have succumbed at last to the megalopolis which we have dreaded." Last week the Vineyard Haven health board refused to issue a septic tank permit to the company. McDonald's retreated, for the moment at least. Said Jack Ochtera, the company's real estate manager for New England: "No one needs the aggravation of a Martha's Vineyard...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank (Oct. 25, CBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T...
...views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance at the many cons directed at her harried legions...
Your Americana mini-article that spoke of the orbiting astronauts' seeing a crystal beauty in their body wastes in space [Jan. 16] disturbed my idea of the breathtakingly unpolluted realm of the cosmos. One man's heaven is another man's septic tank...