Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about this female, Lora, played by a well-developed Italian girl named Isabel Sarli, who has the sexiest way of standing over her husband and her love after she has left them at the bottom of a hole. The men have spent most of the film digging--looking for water they say. In fact they spent so much time digging it that a kid sitting behind me left halfway through, groaning under his breath, "that's just one shovel-full too many...
...after Paleontologist Colbert's identification, the burden is on them to explain how a fresh-water amphibian swam through hundreds of miles of saltwater ocean to reach Antarctica and die at the bottom of a stream only 325 miles from the South Pole...
...urban Southern Baptist and Methodist congregations there is a growing spiritual sophistication about interpreting the Bible. But in country villages, among the fervent fundamentalist churchlets, the literal truth of God's word is an unalterable axiom. "Even the mention of Christ walking on water or Jonah being swallowed by a whale can quickly develop into an insoluble controversy if it is suggested that such miracles are symbolic," writes Caldwell. In one such back-country church recently, he says, the congregation became concerned when the minister neglected to specifically reaffirm from the pulpit that Christ was born of a virgin...
...through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...romance has largely disappeared from the road. Gone are the days of the fraternity, when messages from Dick the Stabber, Wingey Ed and Denver Flip might be found scribbled on every railroad water tank. The decline of the railroad, the rise of the mechanized farm, and the welfare state have just about finished off the career hobo as a mass phenomenon. But he still flourishes in the national mythology. And his descendants live, says Allsop, in the hippies "on the lam from the daily grind," in the restless American who prizes and praises his ultimate freedom of choice, "the right...