Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble was caused by the fire ant, an agricultural pest that entered the U.S. from South America about 50 years ago and is now considered a problem in most Southeastern states. The fire ant erects mounds on cleared land; like natural tank traps, the mounds foul farm machinery. Worse, the ant has a stinging bite that plagues farmers and city dwellers and can even kill small animals...
...bachelor popularity of owlish Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's one-man think tank, has earned him the White House sobriquet "playboy of the western wing." Last week his reputation was appraised by pretty blonde Washington Hostess Barbara Howar. Said she on-camera to TV's Mike Wallace: "Mike, it takes time to be a swinger, you know. Henry doesn't have that kind of time. If he's taking you out to dinner, don't start to get dressed until the third time he's called...
...Office in Venice, California (L.A.'s bohemian district), not only reaffirms his fascination with ideas but also reveals the style with which he goes about his problem solving. The Office in itself is a transformation-from an old garage to a furniture factory, film studio, design workshop, and think tank. Yet outside, one could not tell this white-washed building from its former incarnation, "we haven't had a sign on the door for twenty-five years now," said Eames. Today it simply has the address...
...removed 28 miles and freed; it found its way home in less than four hours. A coho salmon raised in a California hatchery was shifted to a different stream when it was a year old. At spawning time the next year, the fish appeared back in its old tank. From the sea, it had found and ascended its home stream, crossed under U.S. Highway 101 by culvert, swum through a storm sewer and up to a flume, finally wriggled through a right-angled 4-in. drainpipe, knocking off its wire cap, and leaped across a wire net that surrounded...
...fight between black and white Marines at a tank battalion base near Danang almost ended disastrously when a dozen black Marines in black shirts and gloves showed up armed with rifles and grenades to help another black who was being beaten by whites...