Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time to see Emoto vanish out the plane door, to fall 2,300 ft. into the Inland...
...several more frame houses for the Colaborer families soon to follow. They hold Sunday and evening services for hundreds of Brazilians, show film strips, pass out Portuguese-language Bibles and prayer books. George Sutton, 35, has trimmed off 35 lbs., put calluses on his hands lugging buckets of water. His wife, 34, misses lipstick ("but, after all, we don't want to look like painted women") and yearns for un-Brazilian slacks to ward off chiggers and biting flies...
...hospital patient who complains that the water in his bedside carafe is not fit to drink is usually right, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the stuff could kill him. It was patients' complaints that set a team of Harvard University physicians and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital bacteriologists to checking bedside water in 24 of Boston's nongovernment hospitals. What they found was far worse than they had feared...
...meaning that in many there were the partly decomposed bodies of insects, or "islands" of algae and fungi. Often, the walls were slimy. Most had a stale odor, and "a few were literally foul." When the bacteriologists went to work, they found that in 22% of the carafes the water contained colon bacilli, and no fewer than 69% held Staphylococcus aureus-including at least one of the deadly, penicillin-resistant strains that have caused wholesale epidemics and killed babies in some hospital nurseries (TIME, March...
...microbes do not come from Boston city water, the researchers established: that contains enough chlorine to kill them off. And ice made from this water under proper conditions is equally safe. The trouble originates right in the hospitals. Most of them have carafes with narrow necks, so they cannot be properly cleaned without a brush-and not a single bottle brush was found. Most carafes are made of materials that will not stand sterilization by heat, and no hospital specified disinfection as part of the cleaning routine. In one-third of the hospitals the carafes were "cleaned" in the utility...