Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inge, familiar with peril, wandered to the lake [at the time Audie and Bill were struggling in the water] and immediately recognized an emergency. Not standing on ceremony, she stripped quickly to her bra and shorts before diving into the lake. She was no more exposed than had she been wearing a two-piece bathing suit. The sprint through the chilly water exhausted her too. But the three, acting as a team, took turns in holding each other up at intervals until they made the shore...
...prowled on through his mysteries. ("The detective must put his mind to work. My mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions.") Five-thirty was the cocktail hour for the Dulleses, "Jerry" Greene and Dr. Kamin-one shot of Old Overholt rye with a splash of water for Dulles, for Mrs. Dulles a martini. In the evenings the Dulleses dined alone (typical menu: consommé, chipped beef on toast, cake), afterward played backgammon. Since 1932, Janet and Foster have kept a notebook record of their backgammon scores. Last week Janet Dulles fell even farther behind...
...middle class, banned student activity, outlawed trade unions, forbidden freedom of the press. Scorning any mass appeal, Nuri governed by alliance with several hundred semifeudal sheiks who held 94% of the land. Thus, though Iraq is the only Middle East country with plenty of both oil and water, its peasants were as wretched as any in all Asia. And though much of the $200 million-a-year revenue that the government drew from the British-run Iraq Petroleum Co. was devoted to economic development, Nuri's long-range irrigation and dam-building projects made little immediate difference...
Recently, when Milan's Maggioni pharmaceutical company learned that a drug counterfeit ring was using its label to sell fake tranquilizers, cortisone and heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside...
...must learn how to give up favorite local projects." The theoretical journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle food shipments in the way they handled iron and steel...