Word: specks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were gifts aplenty last week at a birthday party for the world's newest nation, which happens to be a real banana republic. The tiny Commonwealth of Dominica (pop. 78,000), a 290-sq.-mi. speck in the Lesser Antilles, earns 70% of its $12 million export revenues from the serviceable fruit, and it has replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a ceremonial President. Nonetheless, the Queen's younger sister, a newly thinned-down Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state...
...more resolute vacationers choose to ignore that advice. An estimated 13 million visitors have mobbed hotels, overrun campgrounds and simply parked themselves on roadsides, in vineyards, on beaches and wherever else a speck of bare ground shows itself. Les campeurs sauvages (wild campers) number about 50,000. They are a particular irritation to police, since they will pitch a tent illegally in a parking lot, on a piece of highly desirable beach or even, as one did, on a shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove...
...injunctions or politicians or threats or denunciations or verbal castigations or slander, that he does not fear death." With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating. Flouting Taft-Hartley is about on the order of brushing a speck of coal dust out of the eye. "We may be harassed, fined, put in jail," says Jim Nuccetelli of Cokeburg, Pa., "some of us might even die. But we'd rather die on the surface than in the mines under that contract...
...other manufacturing process is quite like it. Only a single speck of dust can ruin a chip, so work must be done in "clean rooms," where the air is constantly filtered and workers are swathed in surgical-type garb...
Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...