Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society's historians insist that Moses himself showed the first dowsing skills when he rapped on that rock in the desert and got water. In 19th century America, "water witches" grew as plentiful as traveling medicine men, ready, for a fee, to point out a potential water hole. As handy as dowsers seem to have been for many a parched landholder, the practice eventually fell victim to the new scientific age. Science abhors a mystery, especially one with a maddeningly practical application. Modern hydrologists and the U.S. Geological Survey long ago rejected talk of water "veins" as nonsense...
...cynical listener. Hollett's divining rod is a single leaf of spring steel about 2 ft. long and weighted at the far end. Holding the rod in one hand and the ring in the other he smugly watches as the steel bends toward the ring. "Guess you got gold there," he says, laughingly brushing off the suggestion that the rod's natural tension caused the bending...
...moves forward, tightly gripping the twin rods and saying, "I am seeking water. I am seeking water." Suddenly the rods swing apart. Have the rods found water? Or did they simply slip apart from the motion of the skeptic's stride? Kaufmann has no doubts. "You've got the gift,: he gloats. "You've got divining power." What did he find? asks the incredulous apostle of science, admittedly a little shaken but hardly converted. "Oh, probably a cesspool," Kaufmann laughs. "That's about all you'd have around here...
Seconds later, an air traffic control specialist at the airport peered into his radarscope and got his first glimpse of what was happening. As his screen displayed the falling and fragmenting wreckage of two aircraft that had collided at 2,650 ft. three miles northeast of Lindbergh Field, he muttered, "Jesus Christ, an aluminum shower...
...businessmen with errands in the California capital, Los Angeles or San Diego. With Captain McFeron, 45, a 17-year veteran PSA pilot with 14,382 flying hours in his log, at the controls, the flight landed uneventfully in Los Angeles with its 130 passengers. There 102 lucky travelers got off, but an unfortunate 100 boarded the plane for its 35-minute southward leg to San Diego. In addition to a crew of three officers and four flight attendants, the flight carried 31 other PSA employees, some with business at PSA's San Diego headquarters, others returning to their homes...