Word: frothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cleanup. By then the slick was spreading and chemical dispersants could not be used because the seas were too calm for them to be effective. On Sunday winds picked up to 70 m.p.h., hindering boats from booming and skimming the oil. The winds drove the oil into a froth known as mousse; workers who tried to apply a napalm-like substance to the oil and ignite it with laser beams did not succeed...
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs...
...music should aspire to as broad a range of subjects and as intense an emotional focus as any straight play, and should integrate song, dance and story in an earnest -- often grittily realistic -- performance. This redefinition has yielded some extraordinary work but seems to have almost banished the romantic froth and high-spirited vaudeville that first won the form a loving audience...
Agressive play in the hole (area in front of the net) helped Harvard early, but the Bruins stiffened in the second quarter. As the smoke cleared and the froth settled, Blodgett Pool's home team had only a small halftime edge...
Last month's restraining order prevented planners for the ninth annual Cambridge River Festival which was canceted on May 18 due to bad weather, froth scheduling a raindate. The garden store proprietor has reportedly offered to reimburse River Festival organizers for the several thousand dollars lost because of the cancellations...