Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water," one witness exclaimed. Said another: "The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly on the Ohio side and then folding like a deck of cards to the West Virginia side...
...truck drivers managed to escape their sinking vehicles, unable to aid their driving partners asleep in the back. Bill Needham, 27, of Kernersville, N.C., was pushing a tractor-trailer rig to Milwaukee when he hit the water...
...growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible for crime in America"). But he had the old, keen eye for human foibles: a Hindu trying (unsuccessfully) to walk on water, a fluff by Barry Goldwater ("No American wants to be a rich slave; he wants to be a poor slave-I mean poor and free"), Mrs. Robert Kennedy being accidentally belted by a Japanese bandleader, and some of the nation's best football players fumbling foolishly in the rain...
...Significantly, the majority of tourists who have booked rooms at the Royal Taga for the next six months come from Japan. They will look out of their windows onto a beach that U.S. Marines assaulted back in 1944; the rusty wrecks of two U.S. tanks still lie in the water...
...slide sequence, composed of incidental shots from different assignments, depicts the four basic elements in medieval science--earth, air, fire and water. From shots of clouds and sea, Haas progressed to slides of birds and animals and ended with a shot of a giant human footprint...