Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then spotted a sailor aboard a lifeboat and dropped a 30-ft. rope ladder. Drained of his strength after 22 hours in the howling storm, the crewman struggled slowly up the ladder. Only a few feet from safety, he was struck by a mountainous wave and lost in the water...
...architects like Michel Couvreux certainly do, drafting refinements left and right). On land, you can remove as many as five of a box's six panels by shedding all structure and discipline; nothing to either side, nothing above or behind, or, more important, nothing blocking the path ahead. On water, even the sixth panel -- solid earth underfoot -- is gone. Michel, savoring these selected uncertainties, asked Janis to name their boat. She reached into her past and chose a surfing cry: Cowabunga...
Mullets jumped in the river as Janis talked one recent winter afternoon. Dolphins glided gracefully by. It is an economical life, she conceded, pointing to a 5-gal. canister on the deck. Normally the thing would hold weed killer, but on this boat, it holds fresh water. "That's the shower," Janis said. "Two people can bathe with it if you don't wash your hair." This was as far as she got on the subject of economy...
Some 20 divers worked into the night, with search lights blazing, looking for survivors. The ship was lying on a sandy bed a half-mile outside this North Sea harbor, with about one-fourth of it above water as the tide receded...
Belgian television, quoting the Zeebrugge port authority, said the ferry's cargo doors had not closed properly, letting water into the hold containing cars and trucks...