Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny carts. Into the mine on May 6 at 7 a.m. went the first shift of 25 men; 15 began work near the head of the shaft, while the other ten manned a mechanical drill almost two miles from the mine entrance. At 9:45 a.m., a mass of water roared up from the far end of the mine, stranding the 15 on a lifesaving ledge. The unlucky ten working at the source of the flood were presumed to have drowned. Boreholes were drilled from the surface to the lucky 15, through which rescuers lowered hot coffee and food; after...
...plans to reach for the equally profitable middle-price, room-number trade. In partnership with Alitalia and an Italian holding company, it is getting ready to build a chain of 800-bed modern "Aerhotels." "They will have all the American internal fittings," says Managing Director Giorgio Campione, "including ice water and paper-wrapped glasses." The first two Aerhotels are to be opened in Milan and Rome...
...first stroke of the qualifying race, however, number four man Fred Fisher jumped his slide. Harvard finished last. After a bitter debate with angry coaches from Princeton and Cornell, Andersen got permission to have the lights enter the finals. They won by seven seats of open water...
...that the Poor People's Campaign is here, government office workers in shirt sleeves from the nearby Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Navy Department walk over in the lunch hour to the edge of the Reflecting Pool to look across the water at Ressurection City. Some of them walk over to the other side to get a closer look, but even then the trees...
...they are sick, and they are hungry, and bored. Fat, black mamas rearrange clothes inside the shelters, and when they get through with that, they sit outside on boxes and trunks. The view is lousy, too. All they can do is look through the trees and across the shallow water of the Reflecting Pool at the office workers in shirtsleeves...