Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prow cut all lines. Gas steam in. Everybody trapped in room and can't see. I crawl on floor to get out. Butler and McKay right where collision is. Nobody see them anywhere. Joe Mora try to climb out porthole and pull self on deck. He fall in water. Everybody throw him life jacket, but I don't see him no more." Total dead: four Valchem seamen...
Relations with China. In 1950, on hearing that the Chinese Communists had invaded Tibet, the Dalai Lama's advisers placed two balls of kneaded tsamba in a golden bowl of water, one to indicate that the Dalai Lama should leave Lhasa, the other that he should not. When the answer turned out to be yes, they set out cups of buttered tea for good luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai...
...provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture, too, the most common excuse was: "My Mama is sick." One woman complained that she had nine different ailments (the ninth: hydrophobia against the kind of water used in Sverdlovsk). Together, the seven women claimed a total of 67 maladies that only living in Moscow seemed to check...
Power, iron and petrochemicals are only a few of the possibilities from a land that Charles Darwin once dismissed as "without habitation, without water, without mountains." Beneath the dry plains rest oil deposits that promise at least the possibility of Argentine self-sufficiency. Already 1,952 wells are pumping, but oilmen say there are major untapped pools underground. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has 1,184,000 acres in promising country north of the Limay River, will soon drill its first well, has begun work on a 14-in. pipeline to Bahia Blanca...
Primordial Face. Cuss I has already drilled sample wells off California in water 1,500 ft. deep. Drilling in three miles of water would be harder, but Geologist Bascom thinks it can be done. So do the Russians, who claim to have drilling equipment just as good, and are apparently trying to beat AMSOC to the Moho...