Word: tars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flattened Dodge Dart sitting in the middle of the road. A tow truck was trying to pull it apart from a shiny, twisted Volkswagen Beetle resting against the curb. One of those flashy low sports cars sat on the other curb, its fiberglass body shattered in pieces on the tar. A fourth car had already been hauled off--only a broken headlamp remained. The passing traffic beat an empty rhythm on the metal and glass rubbish left in the street...
...forgot to report on the tar-paper shacks and the many thousands of acres of undeveloped wasteland. Now how about one on the Midwest and Ford Country...
...this way, Carter had little choice but to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, as he eventually did. Although he acquiesced to its inclusion in the Democratic platform, Carter evidently is still rather unenthusiastic about the bill; as President Ford pointed out during the first debate, Carter passed up the opportunity to tar Ford with the same "pro-unemployment" brush that had been used against him only a few months before. Merely addressing an issue does not necessarily serve to educate the voter or provide him with the information required to make a rational decision...
...tar: what you change when you have aflat...
...that sugar-loving humans consume in great quantities each year. Other insects are also considered beneficial. The attractive red and black ladybird beetle, or ladybug, celebrated in the nursery rhyme, eats aphids and other small insects?to the gardener's delight. Before the development of dyes made from coal-tar derivatives, a scale insect provided the world with red dye; other species of scale insects are still used in the manufacture of shellac. The flesh-eating larvae of the dermestid beetle are used by museums to strip clean the bones of animals so that their skeletons can be mounted...