Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of sympathetic French priests and lawyers they had consulted. Several of the Algerians were tied naked like animals on a spit and subjected to successive electrical charges through electrodes attached to their lips and genitals. Others, says La Gangrène, were plunged head down into buckets of water, vomit and urine while their interrogators stood by laughing...
...Salzburg's hydroelectric system and was swept into an underground aqueduct. He finally made it to a ledge 165 yards inside the aqueduct. After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman retrieved Gigo, weak, hungry, 13 lbs. lighter but unharmed. The grand gesture cost the city of Salzburg...
...Water overpowered...
...were homeless, and 2,000,000 acres of land had been inundated. The local battle cry, reported the New China News Agency last week, was: "Nobody drowns while there are members of the Communist Party around." But there was less cocky talk now of overpowering the God of Water...
Down from Woods Hole came the U.S.'s only full-fledged oceanographic vessel, the trim ketch Atlantis. Led by a tall, smiling young Harvard professor with the wonderful name of Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II, Woods Hole's oceanographers began dunking thermometers in the water, quickly spotted the Navy's trouble. It was just a question of temperatures, they explained. Tropical sun had heated the water to a depth of 50 ft. The sound waves were bent by this temperature gradient, hiding a sub as effectively as if it were behind a hill. Equipped with...