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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep the channels were and how wide the sandy beaches, where in the crystal water lay hidden coral reefs and where lay clear passage at low tide. The Navy borrowed books, charts, fauna and sand. Alice Little settled back to her quiet spinster existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: A Nice Old Lady | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...years ahead. He scarcely glanced at a small scrap of paper holding his brief notes, as he addressed the 1,700 members of Nationalist China's Mainland Recovery Planning Board. He stood straight without leaning on the speaker's stand, occasionally sipped from a glass of boiled water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: No Third Term | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Fitzgerald's flappers, bang, bang, bang, without worrying how it will all come out." The trouble is, she complains, that "people are so wriggly about things. I don't say I was naughty, but I've been in swimming pools that didn't have any water in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Grimy Tams | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Just under the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kin to the Bat | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...grubby schoolboys") or for the machine-made world of organization men ("mutilated souls in cold morgues of obligation"). But to oppose them he offers nothing more than the slow, visceral, unthinking life of animal existence: "I care for a cat's cry and the hugs, live as water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kin to the Bat | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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