Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woods with his one-ton Ford flatbed truck by 7. He had with him his chain saw, an 18-in., yellow Swedish-made Pioneer, a thermos of water and another one of coffee. He was cutting wood on a ranch where loggers had taken the big timber. He had bought what they had left, tops from big trees and an occasional standing tree. He commenced work in a clearing the loggers had left surrounded by woods that cut off the breeze...
...Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." So wrote Naturalist John Muir almost 75 years ago in a vain effort to keep the U.S. Government from flooding Northern California's magnificent Hetch Hetchy valley, a Yosemite look-alike, to provide San Francisco with power and water...
Some of the athletes are near collapse at the end of long races in the high- 90s heat, and medics cool the runners down with towels soaked in ice water. But Eric Tosada, a springy 18-year-old track man from Puerto Rico, doesn't even bother to sit down after clicking off 3,000 meters in 9 min. 38 sec., a new world record for Special Olympians. (The overall world record is 7 min. 32.01 sec.) He bounces around delightedly, and comes to prideful attention when his picture is taken. Another kind of athletic accomplishment is that of George...
...married couples who first met here. There have been 550 or so. They don't keep track of divorces. There's a bar on the right. You shoot your cuffs, walk over the way Bogart would, quiet and self- assured, order the usual, a salt-free seltzer water, slice of lime to give it a jolt...
...looking at the bus. We thought it might have overheated; little wisps of what looked like steam were coming out of the hood. However, we didn't stand around to see what might happen, because we noticed something leaking from the bottom of the bus (we thought it was water). Returning to the rest of our group, who were several hundred yards down the highway behind the bus, we watched, as over the course of seven to 10 minutes, the white stream became a cloud of smoke, steadily increasing and turning black, until the fire in the engine finally became...