Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
...stout mate thought of home; a spray...
Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...
...Arizona last June, a U.S. Forest Service helicopter set out to spray the parched Pinal Mountains with potent herbicides-mainly one called Silvex, plus small quantities of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. Purpose of the spraying operation: to preserve precious water for people by killing water-consuming vegetation. Unfortunately, instead of being mixed with diesel oil, the defoliants were mistakenly applied with water, which quickly evaporates in the arid area. As a result, they were especially toxic. Worse, the helicopter strayed over the copper-mining town of Globe (pop. 6,000), the far outskirts of which were...
...thing, there are always cops around at the Arena, and they spray Mace first and ask questions later. For another, you don't just walk over to the enemy side, all alone, and yell "Tech eats it," unless you have a shiv or something handy...