Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year or less for a family). The aged, the nonwhite and the small farm worker are particularly hard hit. In some Negro ghettos, 28% are unemployed-a higher rate than the U.S. as a whole experienced in the depths of the Depression. In addition, problems of air and water pollution, classroom shortages, inadequate mass transportation and urban decay plague the nation...
...Venusian atmosphere, but later revised the figure down to between 90% and 95%, closer to Mariner's reported 72% to 87%. And while Mariner could find no evidence of oxygen in the atmosphere, the Venus 4 capsule reported a trace (.4 of 1%) of oxygen and some water vapor...
...sales. By contrast, Lockheed Aircraft supplied $1,531,000,000 worth of equipment to the Defense Department last year. Only about 100 of Dow's 35,000 employees are involved in making napalm. Looming larger in the company's marketing list of more than 800 products are water-purifying chemicals, cold medicines, insecticides and anesthetics-many of which are also used in Viet Nam. A major supplier of antifreezes, plastics and cleaning fluids, Dow is also the maker of Saran Wrap, which some amorous college students have found handy in nonmilitary emergencies...
...distant, almost outside his songs. The voice had a sense of space. Cutting through the glut of conventional folk polemics and references was a tense fore-shadowing, a promising attraction to new images: "a highway of diamonds with nobody on it," "a white ladder all covered with water...
Words, we hear him saying, we know what words are. They describe things. But why shovel them into the ditch of what each one means, into the hoary groove of usage and association. Let the words exist as white ladders covered with water. Why be content with little sparks from occasional metaphor and simile when there is a bonfire to be built of twisted images and grammar. Dylan has applied the lessons of LSD, light shows and electronic music to smash the old patterns of reaction set by the old rules...