Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damp and chilling. Overhead, leaden black clouds were pushed across the sky by a gusty wind. The snow on the street was flecked with coal dust and dirt. It was melting slowly, producing desolate puddles of cold water...
...shocking young man. He went to Cambridge and became interested in magick (as he insisted on spelling the word). On a legacy of ?30,000 he traveled to China and Tibet for further studies in the black art. Most of his books and poems (Clouds Without Water, The Winged Beetle, Confessions') were printed privately because of their obscenity. Aleister achieved his shocking ambition. But he discovered that, although he was notorious, he had also become ridiculous...
More recently, Venture decided that maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...while, Venturo was spending almost as much time at Lima's airport as at the Agriculture Ministry. For his next try, Pedro was negotiating last week with a commercial airline for a larger plane which could carry water and dry ice, as well as photographers and newspapermen. Although the desert had not yet bloomed, Peruvians had faith in Rainmaker Venturo. Said one Limeño: "The public shouldn't get disappointed-remember Salvarsan is called '606' because the discoverer failed the first 605 times...
...East this year. Midway through the first half, they began playing basketball. Hauptfuhrer and Rockwell combined to shrink a 17 to 10 Terrier lead and give Harvard a 19 to 17 bulge. Minutes later, the Varsity held a 23 to 19 margin. This was the Crimson high-water mark...