Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room International Hotel, which laid claim to a few superlatives itself. The "world's biggest" eternal flame (35 ft. high) burned brightly outside the entrance, while the "world's largest" swimming pool (350,000 gallons), located on the second-floor-roof "recreation deck," leaked water into the "world's biggest" casino (30,000 sq. ft.), directly below. Dwarfed by a stage as large as that of Radio City Music Hall, Barbra Streisand belted out Hello, Dolly and On a Clear Day for 2,000 champagne-swigging guests, while slot machines clacked merrily in the background...
...moralists and esthetes can only bemoan the vulgarity of Vegas. But the distant future may hold some hope. Las Vegas currently consumes 19 billion gallons of water a year, most of it pumped through wells from a water table that is fed only 3.72 in. of rain every twelve months. As a result, depletion of the water table over the past 20 years has caused the whole town to sink 3 ft. At that rate the earth may swallow up the city of Las Vegas-in a million years...
...June, the North Vietnamese completely surrounded Ben Het and cut off virtually all ground access to it. Though ammunition remained plentiful, Ben Het's defenders suffered from a lack of fresh water and hot food. They also suffered from the lack of an on-the-spot commander. Directing the battle from his headquarters at Kontum, 30 miles southeast of Ben Het, Lien rarely flew into the besieged outpost. As a result, he was unable to make the most effective use of the massive U.S. air power and artillery that were put at his disposal. Communications between the various defending...
...Deadly Seven. That will be no easy task, considering DDT's extraordinary durability and mobility. The chemical belongs to a family of organochlorine pesticides-the "deadly seven" as ecologists call them.-Like the other organochlorines, DDT does not dissolve in water. Thus it accumulates in rivers, lakes and seas for years after the original contamination. Moreover, its unusually long half-life of ten to 15 years means that it retains 50% of its effectiveness for more than a decade after it is first used...
Despite its resistance to water, DDT is easily soluble in fats and highly susceptible to "biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...