Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...
...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
Angus Ward puffed on a stubby little pipe as he told of living for a month on bread and hot water, two weeks of it in unheated solitary confinement at freezing temperatures. One afternoon, after this "hellish treatment," he was hauled before a Communist court, charged with and convicted of beating a Chinese messenger in a scuffle over pay, and ordered out of China. Red broadcasts to the contrary, Ward said, he had "confessed" nothing...
...foot ditch currently disrupting traffic at the intersection of Cambridge and Broadway Streets, opposite Memorial Hall, will be gone by tonight. Workmen today were filling in the excavation after repairing a leak in a five-inch pipe which returns condensed water from the Rindge Tech heating system...
...punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...