Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land is arable, only about 66,000 of its 2,500,000 citizens have paying jobs and the average income is only $60 a year. The country's only export earners are bananas, hides and scrawny cattle fed on thorn scrub. The only "pipelines" for drinking water are the donkeys that carry it on their backs to the cities from nearby water holes. The country's first five-year economic plan was so modest that Planning Ministry Director Ahmed Botan described it as "a collection of wishes dependent wholly on foreign...
Many of the girls stumbling downstairs at 7 a.m. had just gotten to bed after the South House Master's Ball. As girls walked through the water-soaked dining room one police officer called, "I bet this is the first time you've washed your feet in a week...
...small fire in Barnard Hall set off the house sprinkler system early Saturday morning, covering the living and dining room floors with half an inch of water...
...sound of rushing water woke Mary Kay Tolbert '69 who notified Mrs. Huenemann, and Lynda C. Friedman '70, dorm president, who set off the general alarm within the dorm...
...scene was an apt symbol of Haiti and the Americans who go there in pursuit of the crystal-white, palm-fringed beaches, sparkling blue water, and hot Caribbean sun. Tourists marvel at the dramatic color of the Haitian landscape, its coconut, papaya, and mango trees, its high jagged mountains, and its sharp cliffs and quiet coves. They drink Haitian rum, watch the colorful folklore shows, and swing at night to the fast rhythms of the Haitian music. And most take a curious look at the native culture and its black primitivism...