Word: simmering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention will limit it at the start from tampering with the Declaration of Rights; with 140 members, it would be small enough to be efficient and large enough to be representative. Even if some unwise proposals come out of the Convention, the electorate will have a year to simmer down and strike them out in the referendum. These provisions make very small the possibility that a Convention would turn the government into a domineering glass-and-steel monolith, and it could well convert it into a structure suitable to the 20th century...
...spotted across the surrounding scrubby, flat land, a great flood of oil pours into the silvered storage tanks of foreign oil companies, including the world's largest petroleum producer, Standard-controlled Creole Petroleum Corp. Hard-hatted workmen spin the valves that channel the flood to docks where tankers simmer in the sun and to refineries where wastes flare in smoky orange flames...