Word: sodden
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...northwestern tip of Quebec, just south of Baffin Island, is flat, sodden tundra sprinkled thickly with little lakes. Most of them are irregularly shaped. But Prospector Fred W. Chubb noticed, while poring over an aerial photograph, that one lake was almost round and surrounded by a wall of rock. Chubb showed the photo to Dr. V. Ben Meen, director of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum of Geology and Mineralogy...
Whitsuntide came & went, and the U.S. and its Allies this week were still in Berlin. The huge Communist youth demonstration went off in a driving rain, a sodden flop. After the captains and the kids departed, Berlin's otherwise neat and well-kept ruins were littered with a mass of Communist leaflets; otherwise nothing much had changed. There could be no doubt that the Reds had trapped themselves into a severe propaganda defeat...
...were fighting a dogged, seldom dramatic battle of containment, with wet snow and rain adding to their difficulties. At suburban East Kildonan a 25-foot dike section burst, swamping 150 homes in a boiling wall of water ten feet high. But in most places the dikes-made of sodden burlap sandbags-were holding...
Leaden skies and a sodden downpour washed out Wellesley's annual hoop race yesterday. The downhill event was rescheduled for 7 a.m. tomorrow, weather permitting...
...reporters took their readers on a guided tour of 46 flophouses, where 12,413 bums slept in lousy cubicles for 50? or 60? a night. They watched hard-faced jackrollers stripping the pockets and stealing the shoes from sodden bums, saw prostitutes plying their trade amid the lumber piles and back alleys, found that "a surprisingly large number [of derelicts] at one time were trusted employees, executives or professional...