Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled to safety aboard the rescue vessel; then a toppling comber roared in and swept twelve men off the Tusk's slippery deck. Shipmates lashed ropes around their waists, leaped into the swirling water between the two subs; they got only six-back to the perilous refuge of the vessel's streaming deckplates. The other six simply vanished in the tumultuous waves and were never found...
...Bahamas, early last week. They nicknamed her "Bessie's Hurricane." Red and black hurricane flags went up along the Florida coast. Fishing smacks and yachts scudded for home ports. Floridians methodically, almost casually, shuttered their homes, secured everything that could move, filled bathtubs with drinking and cooking water, got out candles and kerosene lamps...
...failed twice before. Daubed with grease, Philip entered the forbidding water at Cap Gris Nez. Buffeted by squalls and strong tides, he was urged again & again by his father in a rowboat to give up. But Philip would not. Twenty-three hours and 48 minutes after the start, he waded ashore at Kingsdown, near Deal...
...compound became known in every country, selling in China as "Smooth Sea's Pregnancy Womb Birth-Giving Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...
...Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider once more, the universal cannibalism...