Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had gone ice on him; the last cigarette in the house from before his arm went limp was floating around on top, shedding little brown slivers of tobacco that slid down their individual chutes to the porcelain tub bottom...
...couldn't get a purchase on the sleek tub edges, and he only slid further down. The tide came in--the wave he'd set in motion sloshed up around his ears and into his nostrils, and he started choking for breath. Snorting and gasping and shaking the water out of his lungs, he struggled up to his knees in the glacier drippings. The he remembered the hurt...
Effluent from the stations would provide free hot water for an experimental factory that could produce 6,000 Ibs. of lobster a year at competitive prices...
...senses, it being universally understood that nobody in his right mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier explanation may be the tyranny of fashion. This theory gains support from the latest development on the party front, which is the replacement of weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted regions for all I know, ostensibly sane people are turning up at parties and ordering water. What is even more curious, they ask for imported water. American water isn't good enough for them...
...Americans were able to let their hair down over imported water, Prohibition might have succeeded. The cocktail party surely would never have been invented, no man would ever have insulted his boss, no woman would ever have been indiscreet ... I miss all these things at the im-ported-water parties nowadays, with their dedicated guests on lonesome pursuits sturdily keeping their hair up. Next morning, of course, there is a clear head but very little worth remembering in life...