Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise! In Albuquerque, N.M., Mrs. William Clayton started to water her flower bed with the garden hose, dropped the thing in a hurry when it turned out to be a sleepy rattlesnake...
...land and the gods were thirsty. To water the land, and to control the temperamental waters of the Kosi River in Bihar Province, the Indian Government planned the world's highest dam (730 ft.). But many a simple villager thought the plans for the dam would simply sharpen the thirst of the gods for human blood...
...steel sphere and its contents will be heavy enough to sink. To keep it from sinking right to the bottom of the sea and staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...
Besides the usual water, wind, and weariness, oarsmen in the compromise sculling trial heats this week had to fight excursion boats and bridges to find out who would get into today's finals...
...shirt, his thin white legs encased in striped silk socks. Yes, he felt he needed a rest, he said. It was a strenuous rest: he was playing tennis, going for long walks, working on two compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded. The music is agreeable, he said, but harmless and rather weak. Then he added: "The French Revolution was not light and agreeable but very serious-at least for those who were beheaded...