Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nerve," Alberg remarked, "for people to send out letters in their own behalf and not sign them, but this can be expected from members of the squirt-gun set." Long later explained that "one day, in the exuberance of spring, a member of the club brought in a water gun and we started squirting each other...
...dropped its third of four Ivy League matches and its fourth of 14 contests overall. Warren, at the second spot, won his match 2 and 1, while Lipsky, playing at number six, was forced to the 380-yard par 4 eighteenth before winning one up. After driving into the water, Lipsky played three off the tee and got down in five, but his opponent folded and logged...
Soon, students--some in shorts and bathing suits--flowed out of dorms, shouted from windows, and threw firecrackers or water bombs, one of which hit a proctor. Proctors and about six University policemen failed to disperse the gangs, but succeeded in keeping the disturbance unspirited...
...Navy hospital not long ago a 31-year-old chief petty officer suddenly broke off a casual conversation with a nine-year-old girl, grabbed the child by the throat, choked her and held her under water in a nearby tub until she was dead. Charged with murder, he at first denied the crime with such apparent sincerity that he fooled a lie detector. Later, remorseful, he confessed, but insisted that he could not remember the beginning of the attack, had just "suddenly discovered himself" strangling the girl...
...keep the Crimson shell from drawing ahead, the Penn stroke moved up to a 34, but was almost a length behind at the mile mark. Coming through the bridge a half-mile from the finish, Penn was rowing a 35 and the Crimson a 32 with open water between them...