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I believe everyone will agree that we have come a long way since the Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969.
Mollie Flanagan
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.
Senator John Kerry
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1943
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Orättvisa
I remember when you couldn’t even mention environmental issues without a snicker. But then in the 70’s people got tired of seeing the Cuyahoga River catch on fire from all the chemicals. So one day millions of Americans marched. Politicians had no choice but to take notice. Twelve Congressmen were dubbed the Dirty Dozen, and soon after seven were kicked out of office. The floodgates were opened. He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure. We got the Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water. We created the EPA. The quality of life improved because concerned citizens made their issues matter in elections.
Senator John Kerry
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1943
-)
Politics
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
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1899
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1986
)
Tid
Jimmy caught the big one around 1:30 using a plastic worm. We were fishing off the Little River and it was the last one we caught.
James Jones
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1969
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I heard that Keith in 1969 was doing heroin, ... So after the show in 1969 at the Boston Garden, I went out and found some.
John Flynn
If your place caught on fire, well, you were just out that building. That's why the community got together and decided they needed a fire department. Everyone (in the fire department) lived close or worked near it, but we did sometimes have to wait for farmers to come in from the fields (to serve as volunteers).
Andy Anderson
It took the fire department so long, so long, so long. They could've contained [the fire] in a little area. But by the time they got here, the fire was everywhere.
Jernoise Johnson
We have reports from the fire chief that an unknown number of structures has caught on fire. The town is pretty well evacuated.
Jim Danneskiold
The grease just got hot and caught fire. Cafeteria workers put it out with a fire extinguisher.
Jim Terry
We pull[ed] up to an intersection, I'd say around a third of the way back to the Green Zone and a car pulled out in front of us and blocked our way. After that, another car pulled around that car and started opening up fire and it was AK-47 fire on fully automatic. I'm afraid that just the burst of fire caught both [Col.] Mohammed and his driver -- they were in the front seat.
Scott Erwin
I can agree with life continuing, because it has, but I cannot agree with getting over it. Getting over it falls into the same category of closure. Not a day passes that I don't see the faces of my friends and seeing them for the last time as we performed our duties that morning. Not a day goes by that I don't think about those unfortunates trapped above the fire and having to make the choice of burning or to leap from a thousand feet in the air ...
Robert Senn
The white bass are running in the Nueces River around George West. Two of us caught 122 (white bass) one day, and then three of us went back and caught 211 another day.
John Findeisen
The fire is what killed him, not the crash. He had severe burns over a good portion of his body, ... He probably would have been all right had the plane not caught fire. When our deputies got to the scene he was awake and talking to them and the ambulance personnel.
Paul Cunningham
I know the first year Smitty caught all of these balls and Moose wasn't catching a thing. Then all of sudden, midway through the season, it shifted and Moose caught on fire. That's just part of it.
Jake Delhomme
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