Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elements caught up with the Twenty-fifth Reunion Class Day yesterday, as wet, cool weather kept enthusiasm and activity at a minimum at the Essex County Club. The last two years had seen a hot, sunny day give the proceedings at least a touch of natural attractiveness, but yesterday a background of grey skies and intermittent showers cruelly betrayed the Reunion...
...gutters. It streamed from the hats and coats and faces of the marchers, drenched their banners, soaked their shoes, as they trudged-850 of them in one group, 350 in another-to meet at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. There the two leaders clasped wet hands, and all raised their voices in a spontaneous doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . ." Four abreast, 1,200 strong, they marched through the rain together to celebrate the first Communion of a new church...
...sensation, I felt buoyant to the point of exaltation. And not necessarily because of the novelty alone. To Stallings, after 38 hours, zero gravity is old hat, yet he still feels exhilarated by it, aptly calls it "like swimming without getting wet." Airman Brett got no such emotional lift, only a solid, 4-g satisfaction from a job well done. It depends...
...spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More concerned with her own comfort, Mrs. Esther Gifford got out of bed and closed the window. "Damn that man," she grumbled. "He can't stop fishing even in his sleep...
...workers, yet initial jobless claims for the week also turned down by 19,800. ¶Retail sales rose in April to $16.1 billion, 2% better than March. Most important, durable goods registered a gain for the first time this year, while housing, slowed by a cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another $700 million in March, bringing closer the time when many industries must...