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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER are two children's films that do not talk down to their audience. Mountain is about a Canadian lad who runs away from home to live in the wilderness, while Ring tells the story of a London accountant who adopts an otter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema: may 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...embraced the soloist and first-desk musicians. The orchestra, at an emotion-laden private party, gave him a silver-and-gold mezuzah, sculpted by Artist Resia Schor; the directors of the Philharmonic presented him with a 19-ft.-long speedboat, so that Lenny can practice his skills as a water-skier on Long Island Sound near his Connecticut country home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Laureate's Farewell | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...doctor, the monastery was besieged with sick calls and a dispensary was opened. Much against their will, the monks were drawn into the complexities of Moroccan politics. One day during the summer of 1954, a group of Arab nationalist prisoners from a nearby detention camp, working on a water main near the monastery, complained of the heat and their thirst. The prior dispatched some monks with mint-flavored tea, a favorite Moroccan drink, for the prisoners. When the local French commandant ordered him to stop, he refused, explaining simply that it was "elementary Christian charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monasticism: End Of An Adventure | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...energy or the tolerance of cold to wash in the glacial streams at night. It became almost impossible to keep feet dry in the spongy moss. On the fire lines, the thick gritty smoke dried throats out quickly every morning, but the quart of rationed water had to last for ten hours, so most men simply endured the dryness...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Since this reasoning is generally true in the city, Smokey Bear has found it very easy to convince us that it is also true in the woods. We easily extrapolate our urban attitudes towards large fires to wilderness situations. After all, forest fires cause air and water pollution; they destroy timber and wildlife and threaten human beings...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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