Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return to hotel because of trans portation problems), bottled water (should yippies manage to turn on the Chicago water supply with a lacing of LSD or other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums...
...very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle the deluge. Water cascaded across the stage, splashed like a waterfall over the concrete wall that fronts the orchestra pit, then began to wash up the aisles into the amphitheater. Finally, the audience had to be sent home...
...findings make it less likely than ever that future space probes will find any kind of life on Venus. A surface compression of 75 atmospheres is as crushing as the pressure of water 2,550 ft. below the ocean's surface. A temperature of 900° F. is more than enough to melt lead or zinc, or do in any form of life familiar to Earthmen...
...spring up from pictures. Shells resound with strange and vibrant organ music. Paper sea gulls take flight across a cloudless sky. When the young voyagers peer through holes in the map they spy black and white children from other lands and entice them to walk and bicycle across the water to the seventh continent...
...QUALITY AND EQUALITY: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water...