Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who wanted to abolish congressional power to investigate were trying to bore a hole in the boat to let the water out. Since they were first borrowed from the British Parliament, congressional investigations had proved to be a useful weapon. A Senate committee headed by Tom Walsh had uncovered the scandal brewed in Teapot Dome. Out of the Pecora investigation of Wall Street had come the Securities and Exchange Commission; out of the Senate War Investigating Committee had come the exposure of war-profiteering Representative Andy...
Last week, just a few days before the committee was scheduled to resume hearings, Hughes announced that the plane was ready for water taxiing tests. He said he did not plan to fly it, but invited the committee members to attend anyway. None accepted. Hughes went ahead and launched the 200-ton, eight-engined monster with its wingspread (320 ft.) as wide as a city block, and tail (80 ft.) as tall as an eight-story building. With Hughes at the controls, the Hercules was towed out into California's Long Beach Harbor. Coast Guard vessels cleared the course...
Whitehall Court. Cripps himself would not suffer because of cuts in fuel for heating bath water. Part of his strict daily regimen is to bathe each morning at 8, in cold water. By that time, he has already been up nearly four hours. He gets up at 4:15, works in his Whitehall Court flat along the Thames Embankment until 6:45. Then he and Isobel walk briskly through St. James's Park. The rest of the day he sticks meticulously to a tight schedule, gives no more than the allotted time (usually 15 minutes) to each interview...
...apparently she has the facts behind her strongest innuendos, because no one has ever sued. Yet she rarely checks an item. If someone gives her a wrong steer, she crosses the tipster's name off her list. She is more often in bad taste than in hot water. For syndication, Edie blue-pencils double-meaning quips and purely local items (sample kill: "A starlet is worried that her husband has been untrue. Her baby doesn't look a bit like...
...nights later "the old-time Princeton class spirit was back with all its pre-war force" as 500 defiant, dinkless Freshmen vainly battered a solid Sophomore phalanx in front of Alexander Hall. The Freshmen fought like "demons," the daily tells us. "Fists flew promiscuously, water and even water buckets dropped from above...