Word: watered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...storm battered the sprawling lowland farming area and dumped a deluge of water which threatened floods on a dozen rivers. Flash floods were expected on smaller streams...
Sentimentalists may compose elegiac dactylls in memory of Georgian Grace, but the residents of Quincy House look proudly out of their fish-bowl refectory or patter happily about their duplex suits. The elevators have failed occasionally; so far there is no way to get water in the dining room; some ceilings are not completed; and the courtyard is still unreclaimed desert. But the Quincy organism is alive and functioning...
...Shocks. Central element of the machine is the impulse Tenderer. A stream of water carrying animal or vegetable matter is fed into it. As the water flows through, beaters moving with a linear velocity of 22,000 feet per minute produce a series of shock waves at the rate of 35,000 per minute. These shock waves, traveling through the water, break open the cells in much the way that a depth charge can crack a submarine's hull, and the cell's contents-mostly water, protein, and fat or oil-spill out. The slurry is passed through...
...comment as a prelude to seduction. Finally, sexual tension drives him into the arms of the town prostitute, a "hoarse beauty" of an earthiness so casual that, "while standing in a nightshirt with her back to Serezha and answering him over her shoulder, she quite shamelessly and unashamedly made water in the tin basin...
...immortal man would not be a man; like an unshakeably secure God, he would lack the tragic perspective of the mortal and the limited in which alone value appears. Water has no value to a fish in the ocean--but in a desert: ultimate and absolute. Thus the longing for "eternal happiness" seems rather a fierce hunger for the actualization of value, for the full incarnation of the summum bonum in existence. It's not that the saints are pictured as consciously enduring beyond their bodies' last heartbeats--not just that they can go on cognizing--but that afterwards they...