Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, the watchman would see a cockroach running down the corridor, and he'd spray the whole place with DDT," Williams complained. "Of course I went right out through the ceiling. They can put you out of business overnight...
...wander, tired of the talk, across the green before the Monument to the reflecting pools. People have gathered and you can hear "Fuck Richard Nixon" echoing back toward the White House. Over the spray of the fountain you see teeshirts and blue jeans sailing into the air. The Yippie cheer explodes and everyone terrorizes the pool, ripping the water in sheets and throwing it to the sky. You push through the crowd, kick off your shoes and join them...
Sixty outlets in the Los Angeles area are selling the stuff, and national distribution is imminent. The pot is sold freestanding, not potted; prices range from $1 for a 20-inch spray to $18 for a 60-inch plant. Sales, according to the proprietor of Encino's The Third Eye shop, are generally to "straight types, who wouldn't be caught dead using real marijuana, but think the idea is kind of cute." Several police stations, less amused than realistic, have also purchased the plants for educational purposes so that men on the beat will know a real...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis, diarrhea, anthrax, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in sixty seconds. Dilute the water a hundred times with clear water, and the fish will die in twenty-four hours...
...store managers and six as warehouse supervisors, but it agreed to stock some 25 black products, including Grove Fresh orange juice, Mumbo Barbecue Sauce, Staff of Life bread, Joe Louis milk and King Solomon spray deodorant, and to give them prominent display. A. & P. also agreed to use black-owned companies for its janitor services, garbage removal, and rodent extermination ("We have a monopoly on rats in the ghetto?and we're going to have a monopoly on killing them...