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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sinking feeling, or just hollow? How much money did you waste at Minnesota hockey games? Do you mind being called a Golden Gopher?" The words dripped out of my mouth like the Chinese water torture...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Either way, most agree that the schools are in legal hot water, and could face serious penalties if the allegations prove true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard in Hot Water Over Anti-Trust Laws | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...fifth year has always been the most scrutinized period of any Five Year Plan and it's no different for Harvard men's water polo Coach Chris Hafferty...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: In the Final Year of the Five-Year Plan | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...that time the Luftwaffe was bombing and strafing the beach, and Dunkirk was in flames. R.A.F. fighter planes raced across the Channel to defend the departing soldiers, who often had to stand in water up to their necks while machine-gun bullets spattered around them. A paddle-wheel steamer, Fenella, took aboard 600 soldiers, then was hit by a bomb. Most of the survivors were evacuated onto another paddle steamer, Crested Eagle, but a dive bomber set it afire, and most of the men aboard perished. A hospital ship marked with large red crosses rode at anchor off the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...back of the boat because the front < was in flames. But the wind kept whipping the fire back on them, and the men were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto the beach, but there was an obstacle. It was half a human body. The head and shoulders were gone, the torso cut right away . . . Ah, it was awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance . . . It Was Awful | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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