Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand. In northeast Iran 250 West German engineers and technicians roamed the hills busily drawing up plans for factories, power plants and municipal water systems...
There is a shortage of just about everything-guards, doctors, books, toilets. Morning visitors can see the basins of slimy water in which the prisoners wash first themselves and then their forks, knives and plates. The floors of their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What...
...current was turned on, it lasted exactly 50 seconds. In that time, 72 light bulbs burst in their sockets. Three village street lamps blazed like searchlights and then burned out. TV and radio sets smoked like burning leaves. Electric motors for milking machines and a bottling plant sizzled. Water heaters exploded. The fireworks over, Carlecotes was plunged back into darkness...
...save the trapped game and reptiles, the Southern Rhodesian government assigned a total force of three white game wardens and eight native trackers, who are working from dawn to dusk. Wearing bathing trunks and frogman flippers, armed with sheath knives to protect themselves from crocodiles, they grapple in the water with the terrified wildlife. A baboon weakened by hunger and privation can easily be captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other...
...capture the deadly black mamba, the wardens use a fishing rod adapted to pull a noose around the snake's neck; the snake is then gingerly deposited in a pillowcase. Dassies (shrill-voiced, rabbity creatures, distantly related to the elephant) and porcupines are deliberately driven into the water since, despite their small size, dassies bite when cornered and porcupines are armed with quills. Even in the water, it takes three men to outwit a porcupine...