Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower with the legend PORT CITY OF CATOOSA rising above acre after acre of dry, dusty land...
...visual humor is often more original than the verbal kind. True, the show's basic gag, endlessly repeated, is throwing a pail of water at an endlessly unsuspecting girl-as simple as Punch being whacked over the head or a clown being squirted with Seltzer water, and somehow disarmingly innocent. Periodically, a bikini-clad girl is shown dancing the boogaloo; then the camera moves in to reveal that the girl is painted head to feet with silly graffiti. Other sight gags are madly literal-minded or engagingly sly. When the announcer calls for a station break, the camera will...
...from Northampton, England, played cabaret revues in London before coming to the U.S. in 1961 to star in the short-lived TV series Fair Exchange, The Baileys of Balboa and Love on a Rooftop. A spunky little pixie of a girl, she is the one forever getting drenched with water when she cries "Sock it to me!" Since she is presumably a little wiser now, the scripts go to elaborate lengths to get her to utter the deathless phrases. Now, when she appears as a geisha girl and says, "It may be rice wine to you, but its saki...
...magazine is selling at the rate of 300,000 a month. The first Laugh-In record album has sold 125,000 copies in three weeks. A rather third-rate Laugh-In comic strip is running in 60 newspapers. Soon there will be Laugh-In jogging outfits, Laugh-In water pistols, Laugh-In graffiti wallpaper and Laugh-In fortune cookies...
Dumped. Despite his exalted ranking, Takamiyama still has a lot to learn about technique, as his match with Taiho proved. Following sumo's ancient ritual, the two giants prepared for battle -rinsing their mouths with water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...