Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cranberry growers had a tart taste in their mouths last week. First President Reagan, in his State of the Union address, singled out a grant used for cranberry research as an example of fiscal waste. Only days later, Ocean Spray, the Massachusetts-based cooperative, became the first company to be charged with a felony under the recently strengthened Clean Water Act. The company has allegedly been dumping as much as 200,000 gal. per day of insufficiently treated wastewater filled with cranberry juice, berry skins and other pollutants into the town's sewers and the Nemasket River from its plant...
...were five or six, and as they grew up and got more involved, Betty specialized in decorating the concrete. When Harper built the shop, which is about a 15-second commute from their red brick, one-story house, Betty got a corner, where she uses an air compressor to spray-paint the animals with automotive-grade enamel. Almost from the beginning, says Harper, "I've been saying I want to slow down. But then I order more molds." That is an expensive habit: the deer mold cost him about $700 and the pig $400 or so. It would be cheaper...
...Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...
While the investigation into campus perceptions was prompted by a racial slur spray painted on a campus building last spring, the study uncovered other kinds of prejudice that some people fear will overshadow the issue of racism...
...valve that malfunctioned causing radioactive water to spray over the skin and clothing of four or five workers...