Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Water Gap. Brown has many reasons to duck all-out candidacy and none to proclaim it at this time. In his short time in office, he has pushed the newly Democratic legislature into remarkable action e.g., approval of the $1.8 billion water-resources development program (TIME, June 29), a $61 million income tax boost appropriated to close the budget gap. He has helped abolish California's party-damaging system of primary-ballot cross-filing, has brought stability to the long-fragmented Democratic Party. But his job has just begun: the statewide water-development plan, for example, must still...
...world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware, the water closet. But at its best the new realism has the effect of a pint of bitter-tart proof that Englishmen can still face life with relish...
Once arrived at Henley-on-Thames, both crews found their food and quarters excellent and settled down to a final week's training over the unfamiliar Henley course. The first day on the water, both eights seemed a bit sluggish, but after several days of double practice they settled into their earlier form...
...said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk." In sum: "A plainly pessimistic but utterly realistic course designed to keep at least a few of our most intelligent people alive for as long as possible following...
...story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to hit, but unfortunately he staggers from cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives him a good part in a bad play in the usual cellar in Greenwich Village...