Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hero of a famed hoax concocted by bored newspapermen in 1925, another boom Channel-swimming year. Itchy Guk was solemnly reported by the Paris Herald to have postponed his Channel try because the water, too cold for all the other contenders...
...some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
Well after Orangemen's Day and far from the ould sod, Irish passions flared in Houston, at the expense of Glenn McCarthy's Shamrock hotel. Vandals dyed the water in the Shamrock swimming pool a deep orange, costing Millionaire McCarthy $159.40 for a rush job of draining out 100,000 gallons...
...method of undersea detection, highly developed in World War II, employing easily focused high-frequency sound waves near the upper edge of the audible range. A large object in the water sends back an echo; its distance from the submarine is computed by timing the echo...
...this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...