Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill is not pure pork. Nearly $2.5 billion goes for Atomic Energy Commission construction and operations, another $294 million to control water pollution. There's the rub. Because the bill goes to the White House as a single package, the President, lacking an item veto, must reject the entire bill or accept it all. And no Congressman doubts that Lyndon Johnson will have to forget his deficit, gulp hard and swallow the bill whole-including such frills as the Delaware River-Tocks Island reservoir and recreational program at the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania border, which was originally supposed...
...rich burst of zoological invective, the paper declared that "the counterrevolutionary revisionists who have been dragged out are fierce dogs in water, are wounded tigers, are poisonous snakes not yet frozen by the cold...
...Cream Parlor-was dishing out more flavors (54), as it likes to boast, than even Howard Johnson does. In the crowded dining rooms of Havana's five "luxury" hotels, three waiters orbited eagerly around each table, smiling broadly, rushing about with plates piled with steaming food and refilling water glasses after a single sip had been taken...
...owns property there. Suddenly a shout went up that two of Dolan's nieces, Deborah, 12, and Nancy, 21, were being swept downstream by the rain-swollen current. The Secretary stripped to his shorts, plunged into the river, overtook the girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie, "and Nancy was as bad off as I was." As he was drying off, Wirtz said simply that he had "repaid a favor." Fourteen years earlier, he explained...
...patients by applying a thin plastic coating twice yearly to tooth surfaces. In upstate New York, an NIDR researcher cut decay by 80% among 500 children who wore mouthpieces treated with sodium fluoride for six min utes of each school day for two years. By contrast, mass fluoridation of water reduces decay by about 65%. Using a self-administered prophylactic paste, Annapolis midshipmen were able to cut their incidence of cavities by 93%. The NIDR is also supporting a study in a Colombian village where fluorides are being added to common table salt. All these methods could be used...