Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flared over what might have been done. At last diggers, deep in the shaft, began to tunnel laterally toward Kathy's iron prison. Whitey was only a few shovelfuls away from the well pipe, when he was hauled to the surface, his face angry and set. There was water in his boots. Slowly at first, then faster, water poured into the tunnel. Digging stopped...
...having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...
...Gabriel Mountains and 70 miles inland from Los Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
...from the B29. For an instant it drove forward and downward. Then Chuck turned on the nitrogen pressure and fired the lox and alcohol in one of the rocket chambers. A spurt of white dots (visible shock waves) spurted out behind and grew into a long plumelike "contrail" (condensed water vapor...
...test pilots like Chuck, who do not have to live on the post, it is not too bad. The mountain-ringed desert, with its mourning Joshua trees, has a kind of austere beauty. On its broad plain are little oases - alfalfa farms kept green by diesel-pumped water. There is hunting and riding. When these rural pleasures pall, Los Angeles is only 70 miles away (eleven minutes as the jet flies...