Word: soggyness
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Manhattan took just as warmly to Alemán as Washington, but its weather was bad. A misty rain fell. Bareheaded, Alemán smiled through hours of parading up & down the island in an open car. Wall Street gave him a soggy version of its traditional ticker-tape ovation...
Over the Middle West last week the sky was leaden. Grey rain clouds rolled over the soggy, black earth; a sharp, tornadic wind whistled through the small towns, bringing death and destruction. Wild ducks, flying north, alighted on small lakes of rain water in the bottomland pastures. In Ohio, the...
The ground is low, and the fairways soggy, and the greens leave something wanting. The unwary golfers is as likely as not to be hit on the skull by someone shooting into him from behind, and some afternoons a crowd of little boys comes out from a local high school...
It turned out to be a drenching, misty Saturday-but the British are used to soggy race tracks and that sort of jolly boating weather. Of the 40 million men, women & children in England, over two million spent the afternoon getting wet for sport's sake.
The rest of Britain's besoaked sports fans were either watching rugby games and greyhound races, or among the 500,000 who lined the dangerously high Thames for the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both...