Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this very contradictory and ambivalent attitude. Every reasonable Mexican knows that the U.S. can dig as many ditches as it wants and that it has the right to do so. On the other hand, there is an aggressive, arrogant touch to the idea of a ditch. A ditch has water; it has crocodiles, piranhas, or sharks. The idea of a ditch to stop emigration from Mexico is one that shakes Mexicans because it reminds us that so many of our people have to go, and it shows how vulnerable we are to a closing off of the border...
...minutes later we were bound for the Delaware River. Our options: an eight-mile trip through "leisure water"--what the canoe people called "easy, easy canoeing for 65-year-olds with heart problems." Or, we could go for the more expensive 10-mile trek through white water rapids, designed for those human beings who want to "grab life by the antlers and suck out its marrow...
...here we were, merrily canoeing down the Delaware River. Well, Julia in the back was merrily canoeing. I was up front watching for rocks with an expression as tense as George Washington's. (But remember, he crossed the Delaware in "leisure water...
...paddled like a man for 10 whole minutes, and then got tired. The rest is history: a wave knocked the canoe over, we went flying into the water, and two guys paddled over to save...
Actually, they paddled over to save one of us. Julia. They left me and my male ego (now in the negative regions) to "pull the canoe over to the side." Unfortunately the canoe weighed on the order of 200 pounds and was filled with another 500 pounds of water. Only the Incredible Hulk could have pulled that canoe to the side against the current...