Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew members were chronically overworked and, until the oxygen supply was replenished after 16 months, had less and less energy to work with. To liven up the drudgery, they used any excuse to celebrate: a beach party near the ocean habitat, a picnic on a blanket in the savanna, a dress-up party in clothes suddenly two sizes...
...Harvard field hockey team opened its season Friday at Cumnock Field under a wet, gray blanket of clouds. The moisture soaked through the down of the sky and fell to the ground in a lethargic drizzle...
After the game, the rain stopped, but that wet blanket had already found its way onto the field and had covered the Crimson players and coaches...
Nevertheless, if Harvard fails to throw off the wet blanket under which it slept for its first two games, it could mean an early bedtime for the Crimson and not so pleasant dreams...
COMING 'ROUND ONE SIDE OF THE mountains is John Hough. On New Year's Day, the 43-year-old police sergeant, a veteran of the Los Angeles riots, took in a view of California's San Bernardino Valley -- as best he could. A blanket of smog had smothered the landscape. "Look at that crappy air," he said to his wife Patricia, 32, as they drove home from a Colorado vacation. "Why are we spending the young years of our life in California when we like Colorado so much better?" In the next three months, Hough would turn in his badge...