Word: wet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
...Olaa packing and fumigating plant, 150 girls grade and separate the blooms, insert the stems into small plastic vials which have wads of wet cotton inside and are fitted with lapel pins. The flowers are air-expressed to mainland customers, who pay 10? to 15? a blossom...
Prescription. In St. Louis, after hiccuping for eight days, Robert Meier explained how he had been cured: a stranger called on him, lit two black candles taken from a black bag, tied a string to a wet noodle and draped the string over Meier's head with the noodle hanging between his eyes...
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Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...