Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water...
Beyond all that, McHarg astutely analyzes such disasters as the overdevelopment of the New Jersey seashore, where builders put up hundreds of vacation cottages in total ignorance of nature, sapping vital ground water and thus killing the delicate dune grass that anchors beaches. As a result, when a 1962 hurricane lashed the coast, 10,700 homes were damaged or destroyed. The emphatic lesson: design with nature...
...Next comes a group of sheriffs and Texas Rangers, including Pat Garrett, who blew Billy the Kid to pieces as he was walking across the yard to get a drink of water...
Approximately 500 freshmen ran around the yard hooting and chanting slogans like, "Rule of reason/out of season." Even the violence was directed against their own numbers (instead of institutions), as water bombs looped into clusters of amazed bystanders...
...think it matter's what happens to them. Cleaver writes: "You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I've kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore, how I sat in a rage that night with the ... burden of your name pounding in my brain ... and out of what instinct did I decide to write to you? It was a gamble...