Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion a year and included 25% of Iran's food imports and most of the replacement parts for its weapons and capital machinery. Administration officials maintain that the freeze has furthermore deprived Iran of basic imports such as cooking oils, tires and even valves for Tehran's water supply system. Insisted one Administration spokesman: "The way we see it, the Iranians should start to get cold and hungry this time next month...
Every two years Pressler has been running for public office and winning. Now he is going for the big brass ring of American politics. Says fellow South Dakotan George McGovern: "People will think there is something in the water out there that makes us all want to run for President all the time...
...biggest fund-raising effort at Brookfield has been for Olga, a 19-year-old, one-ton Atlantic walrus, who likes to squirt water at visitors. Because she is so expensive to keep, Brookfield is letting anyone share Olga for a donation of $15. So far the zoo has raised $13,000, enough to feed Olga 55 Ibs. of herring and mackerel a day throughout 1980. It also covers the expense of Olga's Christmas tree: a fir decorated with fish...
...Phnom-Penh." Electricity was operating in every major city Labbe visited. "It seemed strange to be spending my nights in air-conditioned rooms in guesthouses," he said. "Refrigerators seemed to be working everywhere. Sometimes I even found a bottle of iced Vietnamese or Thai beer. But there was running water only in Phnom-Penh." Labbe observed a flourishing capitalist-style free market in food and in goods smuggled from Thailand. Cambodians who buried gold and jewelry during the Pol Pot regime have now disinterred their valuables in order to pay for the rice, clothing and household goods sold...
...about the rediscovery of music in a society that is totally programmed and controlled. Called Lifehouse, the piece was intended to be a kind of environmental theater event. Some of Townshend's best songs were written originally for Lifehouse: Baba O'Riley, with its synthesizer line running like cold water down the spine, mixing with an old Irish fiddle reel and the memorable lyric refrain, "Don't cry/ Don't raise your eye/ It's only teen-age wasteland"; the aching, almost elegant poignancy of The Song Is Over and Pure and Easy. All these songs concerned music...