Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maddox saw three North Vietnamese torpedo boats near Hon Me. Later that day, three PT boats closed on Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner, was sent to reinforce...
...detailed analysis of Professor Hammond uncovered a flaw in the onesided Classical presentation of the battle. The Ionian Greeks in the army of the Persians secretly informed their cousins from Athens early in the morning of the battle that the Persian cavalry had left the field, presumably for water and fodder. This was the signal for the Athenians to attack and the battle...
Carrying his speculations one step further, Green suggests that if life or its fossil remnants are found anywhere on the moon, it will probably be in the vicinity of the telltale black spots on his moon photographs. In the water released from hydrous rock by volcanic heat, he speculates, a primitive form of life might have evolved...
Whether lunar life did evolve or not,, it would be worthwhile for astronauts to land near Aristarchus. There, by focusing solar rays on the hydrous rock, Green says, they can assure themselves of an ample supply of water...
...built while lying at an angle on one side. Animals could easily climb a gentle incline on a side and enter through a door. As the ark began to float, it would right itself; as a result, the door would tilt and become a skylight in the roof, and water could not enter the craft from its sides. The design, according to Ben-Uri, could easily accommodate three decks and provide a capacity of some 5,500 tons, enough for at least 1,000 pairs of animals...