Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works, says Garriott, is that the satellite broadcasts its signal in all directions. Some of the waves pass around the earth, just as water flows around a stone. Meeting on the opposite side, they come to a sort of focus at the point on the earth that is farthest from the satellite. There they reinforce each other enough to be picked up by listeners below...
Whenever and wherever the itchy-footed U.S. tourist goes beyond his own borders, he runs a high risk of coming down with diarrhea. For this spoilsport condition he has a variety of evocative names,* and he invariably blames it on the local food and water, which he suspects of harboring amoebae or other low and exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration...
...most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods may be to blame...
...Suzuki, 28, is American by instinct, chafed by restrictions, careless of customs, and in a hurry. It is possible to see in Pat and Miyoshi the embodiment of the ancient, universal Chinese principles of Yang and Yin-the opposites of active and passive, sun and shadow, fire and water...
...audience's final memories of the play, like the playwright's of what went into it, are friendly and touching. But its Boy-Meets-Girl and its Youth-Faces-Life episodes do more than blow a cold wind upon it; then throw cold water...