Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...
...fuel expediter for the needy. Working out of an old school building, he has established a hot line to distant families who are isolated on impassable rural roads or on unreachable hilltops. He scrounges oil and kerosene from places as distant as Kansas City, then commandeers county vehicles and tank trucks to carry the fuel to destitute homes. Occasionally, he pays for the fuel by personal check...
...team in Washington swung into action early. Said Presidential Energy Coordinator James Schlesinger: "Someone has observed that energy policy has consisted of prayer for milder weather. This year the prayers were unanswered." The Interstate Commerce Commission directed railroads to give priority to oil tank cars and allowed oil trucks licensed to operate in only one state to cross state lines. The Federal Energy Administration ordered some refineries to cut production of jet fuel so that they can make more heating...
...younger boys break through and ran to their aid. All three drowned. In Atlanta, Mrs. Irma May Key, 51, died of exposure, after falling a short distance from her apartment. Veronica Hynson, 22, and her three children died in a fire in a Baltimore row house. The oil tank was empty, and the gas jets in a kitchen stove had been turned on for heating...
...NONFICTION 1-Roots, Haley (1) 2-Passages, Sheehy(2) 3 -Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 4-Blind Ambition, Dean (5) 5-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombecfc (4) 6-The Hite Report, Hite (6) 7-Adolf Hitler, To/and (7) 8-Letters of E.B. White, White (10) 9-The Right and the Power, Jaworslci (8) 10-A Civil Tongue, Newman