Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exaggerated warnings of legalized homosexual marriages, unisex public toilets and other horrors. More restrained critics have wondered if the amendment is really necessary, since women's rights (as well as men's) are protected by the 14th Amendment. At the very least, they claim, the ERA would swamp already overcrowded courts and lead to more Government intervention. Until fallible judges start ruling, nobody would be sure whether women would have to serve alongside men in military combat or whether the payment of alimony would be outlawed...
...costly stainless-steel filters at the bottom of each well. The corrosive quality and high temperature and pressure of the brine will demand specially designed piping, valves and moving machinery. The exhaust water will have to be pumped back into the earth to avoid turning the area into a swamp. The economics will look more encouraging, however, if Congress adopts a provision now in a pending tax bill that will allow a tax credit of 50? per 1,000 cu. ft. of geopressured gas recovered...
Live in a swamp and be three-dimensional...
DIED. Manuel Artime, 45, silver-tongued Cuban physician and leader of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961; of cancer; in Miami. Captured in a swamp two weeks after the landing failed, he was ransomed for $500,000 by the U.S. in 1962. He later led several commando raids on radar stations, sugar mills and other Cuban targets...
...major parties had little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord...