Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, officials from downstate Fulton County heard about sludge's marvels and thought it might help solve their major problem. Blessed with abundant reserves of coal, the county was cursed with strip mining. Each year 2,500 acres of topsoil was peeled back, the coal gouged out, and the land rendered unfit for any use but as poor pasturage. In total, 40,000 acres of Fulton County had been ripped and scarred so completely that any remedy was welcome. Even sludge. Would the sanitary district like some of the land...
...effective safeguard against theft in Harvard housing. Since most locks have been used for several years, there's no way of knowing how many former residents have keys, and how many copies have been passed around. And some spring-backed locks can be easily "slipped" with a thin metal strip or a piece of flexible celluloid--a Coop-card, for instance...
...rich nations for the worst aspects of the population problem. Americans, for example, throw away more than 1,000,000 cars every year, plus 36 billion bottles and 58 million tons of paper. Aside from polluting the land and water, the critics say, this vast consumption threatens to strip the earth of its resources. In the rhetoric of Paul Ehrlich, "America's pride in her growing population may be compared to a cancer patient's pride in his expanding tumor...
Inside the Center, inmates huddled at the far end of the cell block holding two wounded guards as hostages. Prison authorities fired into the building, and during the confusion the guards escaped. With that, the uprising folded. The 25 prisoners were led into the courtyard, forced to strip and lie manacled on the ground. When one of the prisoners moved, he was shot in the leg by a guard. It was the last shot of a violent day. According to lawyers who visited the prison later in the week, the inmates remained naked on the ground from 4 that afternoon...
Western fads are not tolerated. After the surly, green-uniformed customs officials have finished their examinations, visitors arriving at Tirana's bucolic, one-strip airport are immediately advised that socialist Albania frowns on long hair, shorts or deep décolletage. "We don't need hash, long hair or jazz music," one crew-cut student told a modishly dressed but severely disillusioned Italian Maoist in our group, pointing to his body-hugging Via Veneto shirt, bell-bottom jeans and wide belt. "A socialist does not dress like an American cowboy." A Swedish girl, who ventured...