Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course (Scorpion's: 2,500 miles long by 50 miles wide), the device the Navy relies upon to rescue deep-sixed submariners is ancient and inadequate: the McCann rescue chamber, an "undersea elevator" that can remove only eight men at a time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun in 1965 in the wake of the Thresher tragedy two years earlier, has been delayed until late...
Though a radio message using Scorpion's call sign, "Brandywine," and the discovery of a 250-ft.-long steel hulk in 180 ft. of water off Cape Henry, Va., raised hopes that the missing sub might be found, by week's end she was still silent. The radio signal, Navymen bitterly concluded, had probably been a hoax; the hulk proved to be that of a World...
...Water Use Inspector by the Arco Editorial Board...
...bottle smashes in the middle of the street in front of a dozen Jocks leaning against parked cars. Because it is completely dark and Carmen is a skyscraper, no one saw it coming. Three water bombs suddenly splat in front of them. More shouting and Beta huddles on retaliation. A squad car pulls in front of Beta, talks to a Jock who leans in the window, and leaves. A bottle shatters among a half dozen Beta people. A lot of Jocks immediately attack Carmen, running across the street and scaling a 16-foot gate. A bottle brushes through a tree...
...were bound, gagged, and buried in copies of their own newspaper. Coles Phinizy, president of the Lampoon, displayed Mafia-like toughness declaring, "The lbis is worth 150 dollars, and those guys aren't worth 20 dollars apiece. They'll get nothing but dried toast and an occasional drink of water until we do get it back." They got it back...