Word: wet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-suffering commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan on the dependably undependable Long Island Rail Road, the line is the target of countless bitter jokes-many founded on fact. In their time, the Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad...
Down in Briggs Cage, even amongst the panting trackmen, Stuffy McInnis and the baseball squad are flexing and reflexing, reading clippings from Dixie about the spring practices of major league teams. The last snows of March may wet down the first dust on the diamond...
...flood was fine. They built mud dikes around the fields, and caught the flood water in shallow basins. The silt settled to the bottom, keeping the soil fertile, millennium after millennium. When the water. was gone, the peasants planted their crops, often without plowing or other preparation, in the wet soil...
...face, green-eyed and red-lipped, glared with the fury of a fire-demon; and around it burned a halo of white heat, darkening outward to citron and orange. By dawn Van Gogh had lost interest in finishing his work. Next day he traded his Study by Candlelight, still wet, for five Japanese prints. The dealer, perhaps worried about getting his money's worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until...
Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...