Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel that we keep getting faster and smoother in the water with each meet," Kaplan said. "The attitude of this team can be described as 'quiet determination.' We realize that the Easterns will be close, but if we perform in the water, we'll come...
Condoms may have proliferated lately, but not all of them are created equal. So says the March issue of Consumer Reports. Investigators checked 40 brands and 16,000 individual condoms for leakage and strength. When the prophylactics were filled with ten ounces of water, the test used by the U.S. Government, all brands managed to pass. But researchers got different results when they filled condoms with several quarts of air, the standard required by such countries as Denmark and Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test...
...center." As prime contractor and chief procurement agent, he traveled the globe recruiting expertise and labor. For Rabta he provided Japanese-designed desalinization and electrical equipment, as well as plastic molding and precision machining plants, a foundry from a Danish firm, a metal-working plant, a power station, a water-treatment facility, a maintenance workshop and three warehouses. He had plenty of money to spend; one Rabta contract, he boasted to a friend, was worth nearly $2 billion...
...totally unlike the short, syncopated rhythms of Ragtime. At first, readers may wonder how this young, confessed truant has run across terms like "dissynchronously" or where he picked up the poetic skills to describe a waterfall: "At the very bottom there hovered a perpetually shimmering rainbow as if not water but light was pouring and shattering into its colors." Doctorow eventually accounts for Billy's erudition, but by that time, no explanation is really required. Billy's voice has long since justified both itself and the unique power of the written word: it is convincing, mesmerizing and finally unforgettable...
...outstanding cinematography that dominates Pelle is particularly evident in the scenes that are shot near the sea. Because August and director of photography Jorgen Persson use the sea to represent young Pelle's conquering longings, the shots of the water are thematically noteworthy. Each one is evenly proportioned, with clear divisions of landscape representing Pelle's hopeful horizon...