Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water...
...Their Sturdy Gait. Finland is a country of free speech. The joke I heard most often concerns the 1,000-Finnmark note. On this large, lavender note a group of Finns-men, women & children, all naked-are pictured facing a body of water. There is no ship in the picture, but the presence of one is suggested by a large mooring hawser the people are holding. The Finns delighted in telling me that this "symbolizes Finland in 1952, gazing at the last shipload of reparations leaving for Russia...
...Communists were ready to spring one strike after the other. Ramadier's fate-and France's-hung on whether he could water down the flaming disunity that had its origin in hunger...
...make things worse, three trainloads of milk went sour on the way to the capital. And just at the height of the heat wave, London's water supply staggered and broke down under a record load of 428 million gallons a day-30 million gallons more than last year's consumption for the same period. Taps gurgled and ran dry in thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen...
Originally a saltwater hunter, the lamprey long since learned to like fresh water, and established itself in Lake Ontario. In 1921 it appeared in Lake Erie, presumably detouring Niagara Falls via the Welland Canal. Step by step it pioneered the Lakes, reaching Lake St. Clair in 1930 and Lake Michigan in 1936. This year, the first lamprey was caught on the U.S. side of Lake Superior...