Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house lifted into the air, "hung there, and shook like a fish net being dipped out of water." Then the funnel lifted, and roared off to the northeast. White Deer had been lucky; only three were injured...
...Senate side, Robert Taft had run into opposition. New York's G.O.P. freshman Senator Irving Ives, commanding a majority coalition of Republicans and Democrats on Taft's labor committee, had managed to water down Taft's working draft until it was only a pale version of what Taft wanted. For Taft it was one of the worst lickings he had ever taken. In a fury, he prepared to carry the fight to the Senate floor, there try to put back everything that Ives & friends had taken out. There would be high, hot winds in the Senate soon...
...Ford went to bed at nine in a cold bedroom. At 11:15 Clara Ford heard her husband's voice. She got him a drink of water. She roused the chauffeur and sent him off to the nearest telephone to call Dr. John Mateer of the Ford Hospital, which the old man had endowed. But before Dr. Mateer arrived a cerebral hemorrhage had done its work. In the cold, hushed room, Henry Ford, aged 83, had died by the light of old-fashioned kerosene lamps and flickering candles...
...cave overlooking the city. The day after the Government troops entered-after the street-sniping ended-Yang came down. Aiya! His shop was intact, but Government soldiers had taken his bedding and wares of toothpaste and Yenan brand cigarets. For two days he had been impressed as a water carrier. Now he was free again with a Government relief stock of cigarets and flour for ta bing (cakes...
...Spartan Wives," a sort of feminine union dedicated to proving that not all the education at East Lansing goes on in the classrooms. The Spartan Wives knew that sooner or later a new wife would get acquainted, usually at a community service building ("That's where the water, laundry and toilets are -where you meet all your friends"). But they saw no reason to wait...