drinking water

• “Unencumbered by weight — they carried little but their own drinking water — they did.”

  Blood Lure

• “He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “That year, the Health Service recommended that all public drinking water be fluoridated.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Panic Virus

• “W.en I reached the tank, one of my classmates, J.W. W.lson, was standing in front of the faucet drinking water from a dipper.”

  Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point

• “They dig wells rather than take their drinking water from the river, then dig their cesspits right alongside their wells.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “Enlisted for four years, doing work, most of the time, in drinking water until I left with troops and did some infantry duty.”

  Oral History Interview with Daniel Okun, October 22, 1985. Interview K-0021. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “Luckily, we live in an information-empowered age when it is no longer necessary to accept unquestioningly that any drinking water additive is harmless, or that anything we are told to slather onto our bodies every day to avoid cancer is truly protecting us.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Beauty

• “Much as had been the case a half-century earlier with Lora Little and her followers, the battle over the fluoridation of public drinking water became, in the words of the social anthropologist Arnold Green, a “surrogate issue” for burgeoning social anxieties about modernity and the leveling effects of faceless bureaucracies in the 1950s.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Panic Virus

• “Dumped all our drinking water and half our fuel," she told him.”

  Angelmass

• “Escoffier refused fowl from a certain district, however plump and well-grown, on account of minerals in the drinking water available for them there.”

  Too Many Cooks

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