Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. These two children's films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a singleminded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly tale of a London accountant and his pet otter...
...voted 12,138 to 44 in favor of staying British, and posters still enjoin: KEEP GIBRALTAR TIDY-KEEP IT BRITISH. Gibraltar has virtual freeport status, and its tidy bazaar economy caters to an average 2,200 tourists a day. Britain has committed a million pounds sterling to building a water-distillation plant and housing for married servicemen...
...indispensable book The Irish Comic Tradition, talks of ubiquitous stone carvings depicting a creature called the Sheela-na-gig, half-whore and half-crone, with enormous sexual parts and withered breasts. This would be the same enchantress of ancient legend who, having seduced her victim, turns successively into scalding water, a beast that eats the poor man's head and a dwarf that fastens his hair to the floor and makes him bald. The Irish have been suspicious of marriage ever since...
...pressing the button, the University of Miami scientist had set off a low-frequency sound projector submerged in 60 ft. of water on the ocean floor. To any carnivorous fish within earshot, the signals probably seemed similar to the noises made by other fish when they are feeding, being attacked or under other conditions of stress. Excited by the apparent proximity of prey, the sharks and other predators greedily converged on the sound projector...
...studies of fish behavior financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. After starting his research on North Bimini in 1965, he proceeded on the assumption that fish communicate better acoustically than by sight or smell. Sound, after all, is carried farther in water than in the air, and three or four times as fast...