Word: sodden
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...drizzle did not get worse, and it was on open-air Beaver Field, before 20,000 people in sodden coats or academic gowns, that the President of the United States accepted his degree and delivered this speech: "You men and women venture forth into a world where human nature differs little, if at all, from human nature in 1915 or in the age of Pericles. Human relations -the art of getting along with the people who work beside you and with those who live thousands of miles away-does not change . . . But the age of nuclear energy, in its industrial...
...drive of 1918, a Silver Star from Guadalcanal), Dick Dilworth is a successful Philadelphia lawyer, specializing in libel suits. He was elected city treasurer in 1949 and was a key man on the Democratic team that ousted the Republican machine from the city hall after 67 unbroken years of sodden rule. In 1951 he was elected district attorney...
GRAHAM GREENE: "With [him] life is a precious, perpetual, snot-sodden whine...
...Germans cared a lot-not because they were dying to get into uniform, but because they were keen to get back their sovereignty. The result in West Germany was a sodden despair, which was bound to revive the old nationalism, and spread the conviction that good behavior does not pay any more than bad behavior...
...sodden rot of defeat, surrender and demoralization is eating its way through the fragile fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...