Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their Knees. Some of them had a pretty exciting time. The crew of the Sinclair Refining Co.'s 17,229-ton tanker Sinco spent three wild days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
...jackets were dropped, lost or thrown aside in the crush and panic. Some passengers could not swim, others cringed inside the cabin in fear of the shark-infested sea. In six minutes the plane sank. A few survivors, who had scrambled out, reached the island. Others floated in the water until Coast Guard boats, guided by the eerie swaying light of plane-dropped flares, picked them up. Of the 81 aboard, 53 were lost, including Pilot Cockrill and the five infants, all but three of the 20 women...
Last fortnight, tourists who went out to Xochimilco found the boats untended, their flowers wilted. An old boatman named Cecilio ("Negro") Pacheco explained why. He leaned over the side of his canoa, plunged a muscular arm into the murky water. "Look," he said. His arm caused a sucking sound as it went up to the elbow in thick mud. "Who wants to ride around Xochimilco...
...months, truck farmers around Xochimilco had been pulling down the water level by digging artesian wells to feed their cauliflower and carrot patches. The municipality of Mexico City did nothing about it. As the waterline in the canals dipped under the one-foot mark (four feet is normal), the boatmen, led by Pacheco, tackled the problem themselves. Armed with picks & shovels, 1,000 of them with their wives and children started digging in the mucky canals. Thousands more joined them, all seeking new springs to feed Xochimilco...
...Xochimilquenses began to hit water, the municipality gave them some help. It hustled well-digging machinery and pumps out to the canals. It signed a contract with a nearby factory to use its pump during off-hours. As a result, in a single night 396,262 gallons of water were pumped into the canals. The boatmen, on their own, had accounted for plenty more...