Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when India and Pakistan separated amid bloodshed that was exceeded in the 20th century only by the two World Wars, a border line was drawn through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast areas of India were "simply thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted...
...David Lilienthal, onetime chief of the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority, visited the subcontinent and concluded that while the two nations quarreled over how much water each got, fully 80% of the Indus flow swept unused to the sea. The question was "pure dynamite," Lilienthal noted, and he urged that an extended canal system be "designed, built and operated as a unit," jointly financed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank...
...years of hard work failed to temper nationalistic passions. Suggestion after suggestion fell through; scheme after scheme foundered in a sea of mutual antagonism. Doggedly, the World Bank continued its efforts, and last month in Washington won agreement from India and Pakistan to a fair division of the water flow until March...
...both sides could agree, the World Bank would help raise the estimated $600 million needed to put the plan into operation. One stumbling block is that India would have to put up a substantial part of the funds to build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions in Tibet, have come to recognize a common peril...
While preparing for the rigors of outer space, the nation's seven Project Mercury Astronauts (TIME, April 20) also familiarized themselves with the hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald...