Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of spectators on England's Isle of Wight last week, it seemed for a moment as if the entire pier were suddenly roaring off into the water. What they actually witnessed, however, was the beginning of the maiden run of the SR.N4, the world's largest hovercraft. Driven by four 19½-ft. propellers and supported on a cushion of air, the 130-ft.-long, 76-ft.-wide craft moved smoothly into waters whipped into a frenzy by near-gale winds. As the London Times described it, "the huge amphibian lifted her skirts with commendable decorum...
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly. Proper yachtsmen snickered whenever one tied up at the dock, and out on the water skippers of fast-moving cruisers delighted in leaving the lumbering arks pitching and wallowing in their wake. Not any longer. There is a new kind of hot houseboat that comes with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than...
...starting field of 63 to do so. Another Drift-R-Cruz traveled along the inland waterways all the way from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Montreal's Expo 67 and then across the Great Lakes to Oshkosh, Wis., a 6,600-mile trip, occasionally towing as many as five water skiers at a time...
Before Cape Kennedy technicians fire a space vehicle at the moon nowadays, much of its inner workings has been washed in distilled water. Southern California orchid growers give their plants water supplied by bottlers because the chlorinated stuff that comes out of taps wilts the delicate flowers. Across the U.S., the growing pollution of water supplies and the increasing sophistication of manufacturing processes have uncorked a surprising industrial market for companies whose traditional field is supplying bottled water for homes and office coolers...
...decade ago, industrial uses provided almost no income for the nation's 500 water bottlers. Today, jet aircraft use purified water mixed with fuel in order to keep engines cooler during takeoffs; electric utilities use the stuff to wash insulators while the juice remains on-because the purity of the bath prevents dangerous sparking. Procter & Gamble uses millions of gallons for mouthwashes and similar items so that they will always taste the same. The builders of a new Inglewood, Calif., sports palace called the Forum fed their cement mixers exclusively with bottled water in order to provide a better...