Word: cisterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining the drinking water for their cattle. Henderson lobs a homemade bomb into the cistern, but Quixote-fashion, blows up the retaining wall as well as the frogs, and the precious water seeps into the sand...
...copper rolls were originally one sheet, rolled up in a hurry or by unskilled hands which broke it at a joint into two rolls. The directions read more like the works of Captain Kidd than the Dead Sea Scrolls' Teacher of Righteousness: "In the cistern which is below the rampart, on the east side, in a place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense...
...book shows skill and ingenuity in the business of saying "boo" to grownups, but sometimes the "boo" does not ring true. While horror may indeed lie below the asphalt of a city's streets, one does not enter that world-as does Bradbury's character in The Cistern-by way of an actual clanging manhole cover. Life may end as a pickled monstrosity in a jar of alcohol; with Bradbury, in The Jar, that end is only a beginning. There are 19 stories in this book, but the best of the lot is more rib-tickling than spine...
...Documents." And there is Millionaire Kilk's man Friday, whose English is by way of Harry Lev as he invokes the Roosevelt "Nude Eel," makes an "important lung-distant call" and regards any setback for John Henry as "a terrible shot to th' boy's nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious gold dust 30 years ago, and a Quai d'Orsay spokesman begs the Americans...
...three days the classified ad ran in Chicago newspapers. It brought in no gallons of stale water. A Decatur cistern was tapped for a 29-year-old sample. The water heater of a high-school teacher in Oak Park yielded 30 gallons between five and twelve years old. An undertaker emptied his fire extinguisher and a grocer drained the soda pop cooler he had not cleaned for five years...