Word: littering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Texas the bus enters a stretch of icy country that turns out to last some 2,000 miles, almost to New York, in fact. Wrecked semitrucks and skidded cars begin to litter the roadside. At one stop, a shocked, trembling trucker keeps saying: "There were cars all around me, and this little one pulled right in front...
...power of rousing phrases was recognized long before anybody knew how or why it worked. Some equivalent of "Hail to the Chief no doubt glued people to their governments from the moment tribes first formed, just as, later, did "Long live the King!" History has left a litter of slogans from all its great events, civil as well as martial-and not only political history. After Pope Urban II in 1095 called for war to recapture the Holy Land, the spontaneous outcry of listening clerics -"God wills it!"-helped fire up Christendom for the First Crusade. The translation of philosophy...
...piece of the action: recreational free rein over the whole park area. This makes R-Ranch an almost ideal solution to the problem of wilderness use. The land is kept from subdividers; it is also saved from typical state park despoilment. After all, R-Ranchers are hardly apt to litter their own property...
Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...
Construction on the Jamaican Lounge goes on. The electric saw drones in the background, bent nails litter the floor, plenty of Labatt's beer (on tap) is flowing. The place was to be ready for a "maiden" bash on the coming weekend...