Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet is an annual event geared especially for non-team members. Only three of the eleven events were regulation meet events. Members of the water safety instructor class helped run the meet as part of their course work...
...Dunreith, Ind., 250 residents had to be evacuated for 48 hours after two freight trains sideswiped, releasing flammable and poisonous liquids that resulted in a ten-hour fire and a huge explosion. The fire destroyed a cannery-Dunreith's major industry-and seven houses; cyanide pollution of the water persisted for several months. The wreck, which cost the railroad $ 1,000,000, was caused by a defective rail that would have cost $50 to repair...
...unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases in the desert-or the ones that say the vast regions that change color every spring are vegetation...
...large amounts of cool tap water over the affected area...
...challenging established firms with exuberance and even effrontery are the builders of conglomerates?those multipurpose, multi-industry companies that specialize in hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off?at least...