Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds almost the same whether whacked or stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise fingering. It also requires good care: the slightest humidity change in the Pleasants' Bonn home makes their instrument go sharp in summer, flat in winter. In winter they boil as much as two gallons of water daily to keep it in tune...
Last May. after two years of practice and water boiling, Harpsichordist Pleasants made her debut in Essen. Response was staggering. "She opened the door to the world of Johann Sebastian Bach," said one critic. Others acclaimed her "sovereign manipulation of tonal line," the subtle clarity of her rock-solid rhythm, taste and imagination. Wrote one fan: "It seems that the dry, tinkling sounds emanating from this delicate box satisfy an inherent longing for an orderly perfection which has long been lost in our vulgar present day." Last week, as Germany's "Hausfrau at the Harpsichord" continued her triumphant tour...
...study of the possibilities of fertilizing the ocean surface water, so that more marine life can grow...
...drives him on. She tells him that he has the grun-tu-molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining the drinking water for their cattle. Henderson lobs a homemade bomb into the cistern, but Quixote-fashion, blows up the retaining wall as well as the frogs, and the precious water seeps into the sand...
...soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts a bullfight with a moment of swoosh, then the U.S. is plotting to kill the corrida...