Word: soddenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been obvious that on Saturdays in Soldiers Field, some of the strongest and most determined defense has been seen after the final horn ending the football game. At first, it is defense by authority (see below) and this is often enough to turn away the sodden hordes of invaders from at least one of the HAA's goalposts...
...young West German republic had made a heartening display of nerve. Like their "Youth Rally" in Berlin last Whitsun, the Communists' "resistance day" was a sodden fizzle...
Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
...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...