Word: cistern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benton had been wanting to paint salty, sociable old ex-Editor Hough for quite a while, he said, "but I figured I'd have to lead him up to it gradually. We were having some bourbon and cistern water at his place when I told him, 'By God, I'm going to paint your picture.' We had a good time at it. After we were finished for the day we'd have a drink and then I'd take him home and we'd have another drink...
...idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down...
...monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
Arabs in the Cistern. The $11, Eaton had understood, was to cover the whole journey, but the sheik in charge understood differently; on the second day the camel drivers went on strike. This was the first of many sit-downs ordered by the camel sheik, after each of which Eaton recorded laconically in his journal: "Pacified him with promises...
...fear of his brother got too much for him. He disappeared into the desert, but was soon brought back "cringing with apology." By April 6, the invaders were within 120 miles of their objective city, Derna. Starved and thirsty on half rations, they found water in a cistern in which two presumably murdered Arabs were floating. But Hamet and his followers refused to move on without more food...