Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strolling along on the banks of the Nile, he came across a water carrier consuming the remains of a large Ibis, a North African heron who sports a magnificent bone. A crocodile had beaten the fellahin to the Ibis feast, and the native was about to attack the remains with a large knife, when Rothenberg stayed his hand with "fellow, spare that bone...
Carrying two reels of 3/4 inch high pressure hose, the fog wagon can pump 60 gallons of water per minute through two gun type nozzles. "Turning disks inside the nozzles," White said "atomize the water and create a stream of fog which extends 20 feet." In especially close work the fireman can turn on a protective spray which provides a water shield. A five ton winch which can be used to pull down walls and for hauling cars out of rivers is another feature of the new engine...
Although the engine pumps water from the hydrant it can draw on its reserve tank of 435 gallons if necessary, White said. In either case the pump maintains a pressure of 600 lbs. per square inch at the nozzles...
...exhibit at San Francisco's De Young Museum were 440 watercolors from the days when the scientific picturing of flowers was an art, not a craft. The water-colors were the work of a talented early 19th Century French painter-naturalist, Pancrace Bessa...
...along the route (see map), townsfolk dropped whatever they were doing to watch the tour go by. Fans encouraged and refreshed their favorites in the customary manner: by dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...