Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Geyser Dousers & Sign Reversers. Literary and artistic work is just a part of the swath of destruction left by carefree vacationers. They tear out bathroom fixtures and pull up flowering plants. They use blasting powder to collect specimens of Indian hieroglyphics. They feed chocolate-covered laxatives to bear cubs and dump detergent into geysers. Sometimes they block up geysers with rocks and logs. They reverse signs on trails-a form of humor that has led to at least one near fatality. In Gettysburg they love to push over monuments...
...though the Soviet Union were too sprawling for its own good, too diverse to take care of itself without hurting itself, or as though none of those gods or prophets in whom its people believe?particularly Marx?had intended for so heterogeneous and far-flung a swath of humanity and real estate...
Crops within three miles of the crater were destroyed. Downwind, in a triangular swath stretching 200 miles to the east, about 10% of the crops suffered some damage from the dust. Several fields of alfalfa and wheat in eastern Washington were flattened by the weight of ash. When wetted by rains, like those that fell four days after the blast, ash on the ground forms a thick cement-like glop that young shoots may be unable to break through...
Tornadoes are the most violent of storms. Striking with little warning, they cut a narrow swath of almost complete destruction. Cars are hurled into the air and houses are splintered into kindling wood. By last week several outbreaks of tornadoes had already occurred in the South and Midwest, causing injuries and extensive damage. Indeed, about three-quarters of the world's tornadoes strike in the U.S., most of these in a belt nicknamed Tornado Alley that extends from Texas to Ohio and reaches as far east as the Appalachians and as far west as the Rockies. Since...
...Reed wrote in the Times magazine, are very different. Reagan's position on the Panama Canal: "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours." Says Bush: "I understand trying to break out of colonialism. I understand that you don't go out and cut a swath through another guy's country to build a canal. But I think it's of overriding importance that the United States keep its commitments, and that's the reason I oppose the treaty." On paper it may sound like so much politicizing but from the podium, the voters tell you, this...