Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yachts; the company is pushing them as collector's items at collector's prices. The Mark V lists at $13,067 and is expected to sell well. That presents a problem for Ford. To meet the 19-m.p.g. average this year, the company must offset the thirst of its big models with increased production of little cars. But sales of its mainstay in that field, the Pinto, dropped after the disclosure in July that Pintos of '71 through '76 model-years have fuel tanks that have ruptured in rear-end crashes. So Ford redesigned the tank...
...Cross workers said the threats of famine and death from thirst are becoming increasingly more serious because the Syrians have cut off all routes of supply to the eastern sector...
...sense of justice is offended, the retributive instinct flares and hops in outrage; it gesticulates like Mussolini; it demands satisfaction. The urge is deep and primitive. Some cannibals on Pacific islands used to eat convicted murderers for dinner-a practice that appeased both their hunger for food and their thirst for justice...
...Florida. A record 600 refugees landed in June, including five boatloads on a single day; another 300 arrived by mid-July, swelling the total since November to 1,400. In the comparable period a year earlier, the total was 344. Hundreds more may have died of hunger and thirst or drowned during the passage. Two weeks ago, for example, 23 Haitians died when their crowded boat capsized in choppy seas outside Freeport harbor. Says Truman Carr, an agent of the U.S. Border Patrol: "The boats are overloaded and there is no safety equipment. There's no telling how many have...
...land was open pasture. Half a million sheep grazed New Hampshire's rocky hillsides. But when the Western prairies opened up it was possible to raise flocks of 20,000 or more animals. The New England industry went into a decline. Roughly a decade ago, when the thirst for things natural took hold in protest against the increasingly plastic quality of American life, sheep began making a comeback. Today there are roughly 6,000 sheep in New Hampshire mostly in small flocks of ten or 15 animals "When you consider that there are some single farms in the Midwest...