Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Interior Subcommittee acted to make sure that getting the coal does not cause lasting damage. It approved an even tougher bill to regulate strip mining than the one the Senate passed last month (TIME, Oct. 22). If it passes the full House, the bill will require surface miners not only to restore stripped land to its original contours, but also to pay a $2.50-per-ton fee to a fund set up to reclaim the land they ravaged in the process of digging...
Lately Thomas bills his book as "an objective reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that this dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
...Speaking of the emergence of Walt Kelly's Pogo in the early 1950s. TIME wrote: "Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals: comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth...
Since Li'l Abner began to satirize the lunacies of liberalism, it has been written out of comic-strip history in the manner of Nineteen Eighty-Four. To those liberals who fear 1984. I suggest Walt's immortal line. "We have met the enemy...
...massive deposits of coal; but because of strong opposition to strip mining and a shortage of miners, getting coal in needed quantities may take a long time. In addition, most coal pollutes, though it could be cleaned up by using "stack gas cleaning" methods. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to use Government muscle?including injunctions?to make high-polluting companies apply the technology...