Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there or we will put sauerkraut in the gas tank of your Volkswagen. Und to not think we are kidding...
...only a 30-day supply of water left. Lee Reynolds shut down his car wash. The local Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...
There will be an end to overcrowding." There will be a continuing increase in the demand for adult education, with the emphasis on practical skills and crafts rather than abstract knowledge. Says Vincent Ficcaglia, an economist at the Cambridge-based Arthur D. Little think tank: "What is changing is the type of learning people want. It's much less formal: they don't want or they already have a liberal arts degree. What they do want is to acquire skills to satisfy their own creative urges or help them survive-plant-growing and plumbing, for instance." Colleges...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...