Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without Bicker or Bother. Below the northern tier is the Black Belt, cutting a 100-mile-deep, 14-county swath across the state. The Black Belt got its name not so much for its concentration of Negroes as for its fertile dark brown soil. Once the heart of Alabama's cotton kingdom, the rolling, sparsely populated belt has changed radically in recent years: the houses where cotton sharecroppers once lived are now stuffed with hay to feed cattle, for livestock raising has become Alabama's No. 1 agricultural business...
...cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath of brown marked its path. Before retreating, the wind devastated about 60% of Brazil's coffee trees in the nation's worst freeze in a decade...
...grand plans, Stormfury's experimental attack is highly restricted by the fear that something may go wrong. In 1947 the Navy seeded a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, then watched in embarrassed amazement as the storm turned abruptly and careened in a devastating swath through Savannah, Ga. Though no one could prove that seeding caused the course change, fear of lawsuits has limited Stormfury targets to hurricanes at least 48 hours away from shore-nearly 1,000 miles at the hurricane's average speed of 20 miles per hour. "Bureaucrats are scaredy-cats," growls one Stormfury scientist...
...shadow sweeps across North America to the populated parts of Canada and Maine, amateur observers will swarm to greet it. The path of totality will cut through Maine in a 60-mile swath where a deep twilight will fall. As seen from Boston, the sun will be 94.4% covered. In New York the crescent will look thicker: 88.7% covered; in St. Louis, 67.1%. In Los Angeles the sun will be dented (26.4% ); in Mexico City barely nicked...
...project is a swath of promenades and skyscrapers covering 40 blocks. Designed by Architects Wallace K. Harrison (the new Metropolitan Opera House, Rockefeller Center) and George A. Dudley, and the Albany firm of Blatner and Williams, the mall will be centered around a 2,800-ft. concourse of reflecting pools and fountains stretching from State Street, just in front of the present capitol, to Madison Avenue. Principal building will be the 43-story State Office Tower, which, with seven other office buildings, will house state offices now scattered in nearly 90 separate locations around the city...