Word: drenching
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...walk is made especially awful after a winter rain, as the cars on JFK Street race past with no regard for the lowly pedestrians they drench on the walking sides of the street. Even on an early fall afternoon, it’s brutal—the sun beats down on your neck as you try to make it for the kickoff of the week’s football action (thank you, Harvard Stadium, for your lack of lights and early start times...
...embraced each other, shouting, “I love you, John Haddock.” Many students laughed, and a few cried. When Love announced Haddock-Riley’s sweeping victory, Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 lifted Patashnik in the air. He and others proceeded to drench Haddock and Riley in champagne. “You guys are unbelievable. My eyes are stinging like crazy,” Haddock said. Yesterday night’s celebration was held in honor of the Haddock-Riley campaign staff, according to Eric I. Kouskalis...
...great little shooter, one I'd rank up with the Sonys and Canons for consistency, speed and color reproduction. Unlike other cameras in this reasonably affordable range, it has wonderful flash coordination: where other cameras tend to drench people's faces with a bleaching blaze, the S1 seems to be more tame, or more responsive to the demands of the shot...
Getting to see Steve Jobs at Apple is like having an audience with one of the later Roman Emperors, powerfully charismatic men who loved the adulation of the crowd in the Coliseum but made sure to put many veils between themselves and visitors. The object, it seems, is to drench you in anticipation...
...drop-top convertible cruising for Mr. Irresistible: "I need to make you happy/You just so black and nappy/Come here, and make it snappy." For the sequel to that excursion, skip forward to "Gitty Up," in which the requisite beefy baritone promises to make our girls "sweat till you drench your blouse and your skirt." Our Salt 'N' Pepa do not "perspire...