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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these days is a kind of super-Noah, charged with rescuing a nearly lost legion of imperiled animal species. Almost 55,000 people-Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts-are also his special wards. He has the duty and considerable power to salvage the vitiated environment: polluted air, desecrated lands and impure water. Yet, when Richard Nixon appointed him to the office, Walter Hickel seemed to many critics to be more of an anti-Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Apprentice Noah | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...pups, plump bundles of snow-white fur, with limpid dark eyes and chic whiskers, spend a full month bleating helplessly on the ice and fattening on the richest maternal milk produced by any mammal. At the end of the month, when their fur darkens, they are ready for the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Days of the Long Knives | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...move systematically through the herd, beating the whitecoats to death with raps on the skull. Only if a hulking 300-lb. cow seal chooses to fight for her baby will a swiler sometimes spare it. But most cows, especially the older ones, abandon their pups and escape into the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Days of the Long Knives | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing in her lungs: this is both Vian's preposterous parody of the consumptive heroines who litter romantic tradition, and a real tragedy in the context of a world where orchids grow from the sidewalk. By the time Chloe dies, here eyes "two bluish marks beneath her brows...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: Mood Indigo | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

Renoir frequently used locations (Boudu Sauvé des Eaux, Swamp Water) in preference to his studio sets. Even in his studio pictures (La Marseillaise, This Land is Mine) he commands a realistic acting style which is wholly faithful to the milieu depicted...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Toni | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

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