Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casey concerns himself with the dreaded Black-and-Tans (Were they ever anything but "dreaded" Black-and-Tans? Didn't even their mothers love them?). The dreaded Black-and-Tans busily rip the peace of Dublin, while in shivery cold-water attics, rust-thatched idealists plan a land where freedom would be free. An innocuous poet and his cowardly roomie stash some unwanted bombs in the bosom of an ample simpleton; she is torn off screaming by the dreaded Black-and-Tans, executed, and leaves the two with the empty feeling that they've been naughty, somehow, much...
...clock: If you really want to overdo the whole business, get up at this auroral hour and visit Professor Arthur Casagrande in Pierce 110. He'll tell you all about Seepage and Ground Water Flow in Engineering...
...towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger of a .22 cal. rifle, aimed it at her head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped...
...case Flavin had the best selfincriminating evidence imaginable. Gary A. Hamilton, 22, ordered tea at a drugstore lunch counter, poured the hot water into an inhaler, and while still in the store went into an automatic photo booth and took six pictures of himself injecting the soup into his arm. Why the pictures? Said Hamilton: to impress his friends, and also to show them the technique. Sentence: 60 days...
Author Henderson's literal translation -"Old pond:/ frog jumpin/ water-sound" -mirrors the surface picture beneath which lies Poet Bashó's elusive hidden meaning...