Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States. For my own purposes I can always get a copy of the speech or listen to it on the radio. But for TIME you would have to be on the scene-to know whether his tie was under his chin or drooping to his waist, whether he gulped water from a pitcher or a jug or a glass, etc. You would have to know whether his wife was on the speaker's stand nodding her head affirmatively, negatively, or not at all because she was reading the comic strips...
...Water. But at week's end, Harry Truman was in hot water again. Leaving Washington for a two-day cruise on the Potomac accompanied only by his naval aide, the President precipitately decided on his new Secretary of Labor: handsome, 47-year-old Maurice J. Tobin, Boston's popular ex-mayor and former governor of Massachusetts (1945-46). The one point the President had neglected was to get Tobin's acceptance in advance. A candidate for governor again, Tobin was in no hurry to make up his mind about accepting or rejecting the Cabinet job. Before...
Congressman Willis Bradley, who regards himself as the canal expert of the House of Representatives, says the cost of a Colombian water-level (i.e., no locks) canal would be a "fantastic" $7 billion. The ditch would be 95 miles long, cut through a divide which is 932 feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change...
...Crow parks and rode Jim Crow taxis, saw (and resented) many a town's Jim Crow honor rolls of war dead. In Georgia he found that even the Atlantic Ocean was Jim Crow, without "a single foot where a Negro can stick a toe in salt water...
...pier one morning last fortnight, a detail of U.S. customs officers quietly moved in on a pile of 600 neat, wooden crates. Customs Inspector Jacob Ehrlich pried into one of the crates with a crowbar. Cried he: "Just as I thought!" His companions pressed closer, saw a gleaming white water closet. They seized the entire $10,500 shipment...