Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preacher Jerry Falwell made a big splash last March when he wrested the PTL television ministry from Jim Bakker. Last week the minister made another big splash. Wearing a natty blue suit, Falwell, 54, plunged down the "Killer Typhoon" water slide at PTL's Heritage USA amusement park...
...televangelist was fulfilling a promise he had made during a fund-raising drive that netted $20 million for the debt-ridden PTL. Looking a little pale at the top of the 163-ft.-long water slide, Falwell recited the Lord's Prayer before his hellish four-second descent into the pool below, where he landed shoes up. Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE...
...flee to the West. Such policies, he said at a Bonn banquet, collide with the goal of the "unity and self-determination of a free Germany." Visibly irritated, Honecker included an extemporaneous riposte in his prepared remarks. Communism and capitalism, he said, "are like fire and water...
...Germany, though no date was set. West German Industrialist Otto Wolff von Amerongen may have best summed up the mood when he met the East German leader in Cologne. Alluding to Honecker's banquet jab, he said, "As long as the German people are not on fire or under water, we may be O.K." Throughout a trip filled with tension, it was one of the few lines that brought a smile to Honecker's lips...
Morrison's supple prose makes such desperation palpable. Beloved is full of vivid images, freshly rendered. Here is the runaway slave facing the Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...