Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circumstances would take more than a year to rebuild. Alaskans will have to do the job in six weeks. By Oct. 1 at the latest, winter's first freeze will come. Unless Fairbanks is dried out by then, the city could become a massive ice patch, its roads, water pipes and building foundations ripped apart by winter temperatures that...
...black, in fact, that light penetrating to a depth of 1 ft. is only one-tenth as bright as light on its surface. At 2 ft., it is only one-hundredth as bright; at 6 ft., there is no light at all. Reason: unlike the Amazon's clear-water tributaries, the river does not originate primarily in mountains and course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas...
...Deeper Water...
...Dear Alf." The controversy erupted when a government tribunal issued a long-awaited report on the catastrophe, in which 144 died when a water-weakened tip suddenly slid down its precarious mountainside site. In 151 emotion-charged pages, the report told a "terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude," scourged the National Coal Board for neglecting "the stability of tips," cited seven N.C.B. staffers (all of whom have been shifted to new jobs) as "blameworthy." Lord Robens himself got off with only a sharp rebuke for having insisted that the company "could not have known" of trouble...
What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...