Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summary, Harvard's multiple virtues are inspiring, and they converge to form a spiritual reservoir in the pedagogue's life--a well from which he may draw cool water when he dwells in an arid land...
Kozlov bounded off the plane in Sacramento, was given a cream-colored Stetson that was too big for him, posed with two beauty queens, one of whom was a Negro ("Note her California tan," said Brown). Seeing a map illustrating California's big plans for a statewide water system (TIME, June 29), Kozlov observed: "Socialism is helping capitalism." Replied "Pat" Brown quickly: "We don't call it that." Later, Roman Catholic...
...people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan: "The day is nearing when every newborn infant will be given half a teaspoonful of a clear liquid in his formula or drinking water before he leaves the hospital, which will protect him from paralytic polio during his childhood years...
Directly hit by the strike were London's influential weeklies. The liberal New Statesman got into hot water with its labor friends by printing in Dlisseldorf, but was back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...
...bell. When Falstaff is smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking his legs in a tub of hot water, so that he gets an extra laugh by gesturing to the tub as he exclaims, "Take away these chalices...