Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen required by fish and other forms of marine animal and plant life, before sluggishly moving seaward on the outgoing tide...
...Spurts. In 1938, at the start of the wonder-drug era, FDA was given broader powers after a sloppy preparation of sulfanilamide killed 107 people. But the sulfas were only the first of several families of potent drugs developed by inventive chemists working with imaginative physicians. And the high tide of new drugs was arriving at a time when the food industry, which gives FDA 70% of its work, had begun its own technical revolution with new preservatives, additives, and other chemicals. The agency did not have nearly enough manpower to do a thorough job, nor was its prestige enough...
...Representative-at-large before his defeat in the Democratic landslide, has since been practicing law in Cincinnati. The First District is traditionally Republican, but Taft faces a stiff fight from an energetic Democratic freshman incumbent, John Gilligan, 44, who was swept in by the same Democratic tide that beat Taft...
...comparison, No. 4-ranked Alabama's victory over unbeaten No. 3-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl was too much of a massacre to class as an upset. Last season Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant's Crimson Tide won all ten regular-season games and were voted the nation's No. 1 team-only to lose to Texas in the Orange Bowl. This season the Associated Press shrewdly decided to wait until the bowl-game results were in before issuing its final rankings. With Steve Sloan hitting on 20 out of 29 passes, Alabama coasted...
...Human Tide. The phrase is characteristic of both the emotion and the viewpoint of this new book in which Author Tuchman sets out to "discover the quality of the world from which the Great War came"-whose guns she set thundering memorably in Guns of August two years ago. Granddaughter of a onetime ambassador to Turkey, niece of former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., a Radcliffe graduate ('33) and wife of a Park Avenue physician, Mrs. Tuchman proved in Guns that she could write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool...