Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third, recycle water. Filtration systems can now clean up even the dirtiest water, making it available again to swim in, wash with, even drink. When used for irrigation, untreated "waste" water does a superior job of nourishing the soil...
Daniel J. Sparks Edmonds, Wash...
...vacationers last week swam and basked in the sun. They seemed oblivious to Coast Guardsmen who were positioning floating barriers in the water. But even as the sunbathers relaxed at the expensive resort, which grosses $40 million annually in tourist dollars, peanut-size globs of oil began to wash up on the beach. Others, as big as basketballs, floated just offshore...
Most of the movie's close-up action, featuring Actors David Janssen, Tony Musante and Madge Sinclair, was shot on a set constructed in the community center gym of Darrington, Wash. But the helicopter scenes were shot 4,200 ft. higher up, on and around the sheer rock face of White Horse Mountain in the northern Cascades. Director Eugene Jones spent six months finding just the right-size ledge, which measured an appropriately uncomfortable...
...groins were also ultimately destructive. Though each protected its own stretch of beach, the barricade hastened erosion on the adjacent section, which was no longer replenished by the wash of fresh sand. The only solution seemed to be to build more groins, but they caused more erosion. By the early 1960s, the waves were lapping almost at the foundations of Miami Beach monuments like the Fontainebleau Hilton...