Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anglicans and assorted Protestants arise! You have been betrayed by your protectors. Just think of the non-birth-controlling Roman Catholics busy filling the world with more non-birth-controlling Catholics; while you are conserving air, water and food through birth control, the fruitful Catholics are gobbling it all up. The way to combat this problem: beget more Anglicans...
...golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro, did the campaigner call it a day. Taking off from a scrub-lined strip without lights, he flew into Tucson, checked in at the Pioneer Hotel, took off his shirt, pants and shoes, ordered a brace of Old Crows (splashed with water, but no ice), swallowed a Miltown tablet and went to sleep like a winner...
Great gaseous bubbles of oil and blood erupted, bringing up torn bodies and a ghastly debris. Two diesel engines and the first two coaches lay 35 ft. under water. The third coach, hooked on a bridge abutment, dangled crazily at 80°. Down in the second coach, Broker Land, a nonswimmer, drifted to a small air pocket at the top of the coach and filled his lungs. "What a lousy way to die." he thought. Then he found a window, kicked it out, and surged suddenly up to the surface and a helicopter's rescue line...
Division of Power. The original Metro charter converted Dade County's governmental machinery into a major municipal authority. It aimed at developing such city-type services as water supply, sewage disposal, zoning, housing codes, traffic planning-which demand area-wide coordination. It left to each of the 26 municipalities such functions as beat-walking police and garbage collection. Experience alone would show how some jobs, such as police detection work, could be best divided...
...with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious fanaticism, corruption and shameless nepotism (men, said Sarah, anticipating William Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter, came "to be Admirals without ever having seen water but in a basin...