Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depressed Last week he seemed drawn back to Washington. Pittsburgh police hunted for a day in Highland Park, where Dr. Baker had said he was going to stroll. But it was at "Quail Hill," the morning after the storm, that a pipe-line walker named Steve Sento found the sodden body, twelve-hours dead, pistol in hand and a bullet in the head...
...call up the girl you met at the Somerset in December, when the world goes round, and birds sing, and girls laugh, and colors are bright, and the earth steams, and bands play, and life seems full and gay and ecstatic and you feel empty, and dull, and sodden, why then," he said, "It's Spring...
...hangs on to suffering and life. Helen, who hated Thurso for his irreversible will, now loves him for it. In mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother hangs himself, Thurso gets Helen to cart him, sodden with pain, up to a sea promontory. There, in a quarry shed, she surprises him with kisses, cuts his throat. When the old mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills she used to prevent more life. The old mother, too tough herself...
...workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
...rain, torrentially. Hagen plugged along for a 72, then a 74 and posted a total of 282. His heavy jowls had a satisfied droop as he waited for Farrell and Alliss, who had started half an hour behind him, to finish. Playing together over the drenched, sodden course, they were respectively three and six strokes behind Hagen's score at the ninth hole. On the tenth, Alliss got a birdie 2, followed by four pars. On the fifteenth he got a birdie 3 and on the sixteenth dropped a 15-ft. putt for another...