Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exaltation of pates," and a headline a few days ago heralded an "exaltation of sopranos." No, gentlemen, this is not the game. If we wished to point up the origin of the pates, we might serve up a gaggle (though, more strictly, geese are a gaggle only when on water; they are a skein when in flight, I don't know what they are on a plate, minced). More likely, it would have been wise to invent a term--a mouthwatering of pates when they're good, a sclerosis when they're not. As for sopranos, Lipton suggests a quaver...
...Operation Drought," reads the sign on the Pan American Highway 55 miles northeast of Santiago, the capital of Chile. Soldiers have built a tent city there, and government technicians are drilling deep wells in search of water. A few miles up the road, schoolboys play soccer in the dried-out bed of the Aconcagua, normally a mighty river. Even farther to the north, water from the near-dry Recoleta Dam is rationed-four days running, ten days shut...
...craft ever launched. Floating in the lee of two massive unfinished cargo ships, the contraption was shaped like a midget's pagoda with a giant's spoon balanced across the pinnacle. On cue, a small motor inside the bright yellow and white plywood superstructure began pumping sea water into the bowl of the spoon. As the bowl filled, it dipped down until, with a splash, it dumped 26 gallons of water back into the bay. Empty, the lightened bowl swung up again, and a brass "sound cone," hanging off the other end of the 15-foot-long...
...parapsychologists, as they call themselves, receive financial support from highly respectable sources. Harvard, if only to prove its open-mindedness, is currently bankrolling the efforts of Physicist Charles Buffler to determine whether there really is something to dousing-looking for water with a forked twig. As yet, he has found no proof. Last summer, the first premonitions lab in the U.S. was opened at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. So far, the lab has been unable to make a scientific case for the power of premonitions to foretell the future. In Seattle, the Boeing Co. for a time backed...
Between Two Points. A team led by Hofmann developed the quakecast method hile investigating fault zones for the California Department of Water Resources, which is understandably co cerned about the effects of earth slip page and quakes on its vast system of pumping plants, dams and aqueducts...