Word: newe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...
...New York reacted to history's worst water crisis much as it had reacted to the news that German planes might blow it up: nobody really believed it, but everybody did his best to see that somebody else did something about it. Even Communist officials urged their members to save water. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, and radio announcers ceaselessly proclaimed the emergency. Station WOR distinguished itself in particular with a doggerel sung to the tune of Turkey in the Straw...
...power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
...same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...
...new Bossy, reported Bossy in big newspaper ads in the Newburyport News, could act dignified and nice-like whenever the occasion demanded. His campaign for mayor, masterminded by his clever, forceful wife, was a model of restraint. Bossy limited himself to a few dainty attacks on Incumbent John M. Kelleher's spending policies. Last week when the townspeople voted, chunky Andrew Jackson Gillis, onetime sailor and roustabout, was elected mayor by 288 votes...