Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he brought the little plant into their apartment that summer. She just looked him in his twinkling eyes and let him know that she wasn't about to ask why he brought home a potted plant. He placed it on the window sill and gave it a little water. Each afternoon when he came home form work, he watered the plant. Toward the end of August, he removed the plant from the pot and put it in a wash tub. A week later Mirna said...
...yellowish light shone through the closed drapes. The room was a mess. Outside the traffic had its finest hour. The dirty snow festooned the gutters running harmoniously in the dripping dirty water. The quite sound of water filled the room. Pale yellowish toes protruded from the end of the bed, from beneath a tattered blanket. Not that Scott was tall. He had just inched his way down the bed. He wanted to dabble his feet in the sound of running water...
...Viet Nam, Americans have become obsessed with the prospect of diverting to domestic programs much of the $30 billion a year that the war has been costing. The U.S. faces vast and pressing needs in the cities, the schools, the hospitals and the nation's very air and water. Many of its legislators and citizens thus see the ABM as a thief that would snatch away billions of dollars sorely needed for domestic use. The likely cost for the specific ABM program already begun is between $5 billion and $10 billion spread over several years?which is not really...
...rotating earth is much swifter than at Cape Kennedy, which is at latitude 28° north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open water north and east of it that is ideal for polar-orbit launchings. As a result, France, forced out of its former space station in the Algerian desert two years ago, is bringing French Guiana into the space age with a $102 million investment in launch pads and their support complexes...
...treaty they signed with the white man's government in 1868 promised the Navajos sovereignty within their reservation for as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers run. Since then, 100 years have swept across the parched Arizona buttes. Now the grass grows sparsely, and water must be hauled from distant wells. As the Navajos' population expands, opportunities shrink. Young men go away. Elders lose esteem. By passed by white progress, the Navajos clutch the tatters of their treaty promises and watch the old ways...