Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop-the-tests decision was wise "on balance"-and then began blasting away with both barrels at those who disagree. Said he: "These men who don't want a test moratorium are like a kid you are trying to put to bed. First he wants a drink of water and then he wants to go to the bathroom, but what he really wants...
...gigantic wave swept the men into the water. They fought their way back aboard. The Sartori's searchlight swept over the raft, but flashed away again. As the ship came closer, Fleming frantically tore at his last flare. At first, he could not get through the protective casing. He chewed at it, got it open-but it would not ignite. The Sartori moved...
...basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks. In Point Barrow, he promised a new water line, new National Guard armory, and gas lines, as well as the addition to the local school. For Anchorage and Fairbanks, there will be multimillion-dollar help for the airports, and for Juneau a new federal building. Elsewhere-"a bridge here, a ferry there...
...hydroplane Bluebird, Speedmerchant Donald Campbell tucked a cuddly teddybear mascot into the cockpit with him, roared up and down Lancashire's glassy Lake Coniston at an average speed of 248.62 m.p.h. to smash his own world record (239.07 m.p.h.), promptly declared his ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). ¶ "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan a couple of seasons back. "I'm on top now, and there...
...light-fingered away, continued apace when the New Delhi arrival of Old Betsy, Holiday's 20-ton icemaking compressor, was delayed ten days by a flood. Manager Carl Snyder found the stadium grounds awash in mud, although the monsoon was well over; municipal engineers eventually located a broken water main, while elegant opening-nighters tippy-toed to their seats on temporary wooden planking...