Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plug. In Bath, England, the city fathers announced that for the first time in two years the Bath water supply was full to the brim...
...Franklinton, N.C., there were few complaints after state officers raided a still, emptied thousands of gallons of beer and whisky into a stream that fed the town's water supply...
When she is at home, Sylvia works out nearly three hours a day after school, spends six hours daily in the pool on weekends. A natural lefthander, Sylvia has good balance while swimming, favors neither side, breathes from either. Her flat recovery stroke and low position in the water suits her for the longer distances that are her specialty. Sylvia polishes off four full meals a day-breakfast, lunch (meat sandwich), after-school snack (steak sandwich) and dinner (a small steak). She has little interest in boys, does not indulge in teen-age phone chatter, explains, "I do not have...
...guided Gargallo to a reef where they sometimes fished up relics for sale to tourists. One mile offshore, he found weed-grown ruins, chunks of cut marble, and "something that looks like a street or a pier stretching along the bottom for about 100 ft." The ruins are in water 30 ft. to 50 ft. deep, and they cover 20 acres...
...these drowned cities are unexplored and unaccounted for. No one knows how their ruins got so deep underwater; the general level of the Mediterranean has risen only a fraction of an inch since glacial times. Gargallo hopes that his underwater ruins may hold the answer to some Etruscan mysteries. "Water," he says, "is destructive, but it can also preserve. Mud gives protection from time, weather and greedy hands. If the sea bottom is undisturbed, some relics last almost indefinitely...