Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students take notes and volunteer hints of their own. ("I use distilled water for drinking; it stores longer"; "We plan to evacuate as a group in our mobile homes, and pull them into a circle for a wagon-train effect.") Jim Miller, 33, an auto service department manager from Boles, Ky., came for the food preservation and weapons courses. He now resolves to do more home canning, and to teach his ten-year-old son how to handle a gun. "He likes the idea, but his mother doesn't," says Miller. Charles Harrison, 31, a scholarly-looking accountant, says...
...refinery. It is about the size of a 55-gal. oil drum and, he says, can refine crude oil into gasoline and home heating oil at the rate of 12 gal. of each a day. The cost is slightly higher than retail: "This is not something you'll use to save money, but in an OPEC emergency it's ideal." He offers to custom-build the refineries for about $1,500 (you supply the power source...
...use much more support; it would just slop over. The question is how much of that reservoir will he have to draw down...
...Kennedy prefers to be called Ted, though a few longtime friends use Teddy. His sisters still call him by his childhood nickname, Eddie...
Carter unveils a strategy to keep his office: use...