Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those who do not go gracefully to an early grave often fall easy prey to baldness, fallen arches and the horrors of earning a living. Even if they avoid relief rolls, and skid-road bars, they are still apt to end up squirting old ladies with water pistols at American Legion conventions...
...lost B-iy, staring out of a porthole at the ocean coming closer, and yelling, "Fifteen feet ... ten feet . . . five feet . . ." as its pilot strained to ditch the Bi; in the trough between two long swells. The plane hit like a car running into a stone wall. Water cascaded in. In two minutes, the plane's eight dazed and bleeding men were afloat on tiny rubber rafts under a brazen...
...clock next morning, a cabbie left his cab near the First District Democratic Club to get a bite to eat. He heard water dripping inside the darkened club and called a cop. Just inside the door, they stumbled over Gargotta's body. He had clawed at the Venetian blind as he fell. Slumped in a chair at the desk, facing a big picture of Harry Truman, lay Charlie Binaggio. Someone had put a pistol close to his head, and fired four times. The water, coming from a clogged toilet in the hotel above, dripped on the bare floor...
...wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with white and yellow flowers; trees that had seemed dead last summer were budding again, and water sparkled in stream beds dry for years. But even looking at the unaccustomed softness of the land, Spaniards could not put aside their apprehensions. Their government was spending its last gold reserves for wheat. Unless this year's crops in Spain were unusually good or unless help came from...
...Author Douglas is a passionate advocate of dry-fly fishing, but he knows a quicker way to catch his supper if the trout is lying in moss or under a bank. Procedure: tread softly, bring the hand up cautiously under the fish, stroke him gently, hoist him from the water. "A trout," declares Douglas, "loves to have his belly rubbed...