Word: sucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dardanelle (pop. 2,098) and Houston (pop. 206), barefoot youngsters ride bareback through the dirt streets and the old folks rock on their front porches and wave at the infrequent cars passing through. In Perry County, where the population is just nine people per square mile, the Toad Suck Ferry, a side-wheeler operated by the state, moves lazily from willowed bank to willowed bank...
...passed the Connally Hot Oil Act.* Last week, state investigators-with 30 Texas Rangers on hand to protect them from reprisals-were turning up case after case of outright piracy in the East Texas field. It was done with slanted wells, which enable greedy independent oil operators to suck the oil out of their neighbors' pools...
...next one'll suck up his words...
...certainly be reckoned with. A 50-megaton blast could ignite frame houses up to 60 miles from Ground Zero, burning or asphyxiating many people in basement fallout shelters-or tumbling their houses down on them. Scientists also think a nuclear blast might produce a fierce fire storm, which would suck up oxygen over large areas and kill all in its path-but no one can be certain...
...population explosion in dolls this year is the best argument yet for birth control at the toy bench. They kiss, they suck thumbs, they wet, and of course talk, laugh, cry, wink, blink and nod. One specimen has three shifting faces: one with measles, one in a convalescent state, and one in smiling health...