Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Stephen Klim, a sometime house painter, had worked out a tidy arrangement with the manager of San Francisco's Junior Tar Hotel. Klim would pay the $10 weekly rent in cash, if he had it. If not, he would paint a room or two. Claiming that the painter had fallen in arrears, the hotel padlocked his room, which contained all his personal belongings. Klim sued, seeking his goods plus damages and contending that he had been relieved of his property without due process...
...Blake chose not to beat little William, and were, to tell the truth, probably a little afraid of him. From then on though, he told anyone who would listen, about the wonderful things that he alone could see. When he grew older he began to paint water colors and write poems about what he saw and heard with his invisible friends, and he claimed, in fact, that many of his longer poems were directly dictated to him by angels and other spirits. Whether you believe this or not is your own business...
...labor leaders and their wives at the White House on Labor Day. "If someone had called a Mass," he said, "80% of them would have gone to the rail." The way to reach people like these, he added, is to take a hard line on social issues and to paint the Democratic Party as "the party of permissiveness." The Democrats are "way out on the left," he observed. "Keep them there." The main problem facing the Republicans is the state of the economy, and he urged that Agnew meet it by pinning a "big spender" label on the Democrats...
...years ago," commented the Gazette. The Soviet weekly further noted that seat belts are nonexistent, because Soviet light industry has yet to devise a buckle that works. There are also hardly any lane markings on the roads, because the chemical industry has so far been unable to invent a paint that will not fade away as soon as it is applied...
Despite Blanchard's BB-shot analogy, the fact remains that minute amounts of auto-exhaust lead, when added to the lead taken into the body from other sources, can cause serious injury and even death. Industrial wastes add lead to drinking water and children sometimes eat leaded paint peelings. Concentrations of only .8 parts per million can cause illness. Children are especially susceptible to lead poisoning because their toxicity level is only .6 p.p.m. Thus far, concentrations of .25 p.p.m. have been found in some residents of vehicle-clogged cities, where airborne lead is thickest. In New York City...