Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...archrivals it is barely a step from the wet cobblestones of the town that Joe dares not name to the even more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...
Winter's last crushing blow began as a weak storm in the South. Laden with tropic moisture, it swung up the East Coast, began dumping wet snow, thousands of tons of it, across a 200-mile-wide belt, from Virginia all the way up to Maine...
...head. Then he pushed the bedside buzzer for Cook Zephyr Wright to bring up his tomato juice, pink Texas grapefruit, venison sausage (made from a deer Johnson shot last fall) and half a cup of Sanka. He devoured his breakfast, along with the latest Congressional Record, its ink still wet enough to stain his fingers. By 7:30 he was in the bathroom, working on his leathery brown face with an electric razor. "Bird," cried he through the doorway to "Lady Bird," his wife. "I like to count my blessings...
...Sydney, young (15) John Konrads, who breaks swimming records almost every time he gets wet (TIME, March 3), broke his own 220-yd. and 200-meter world records with a new time...
...months old, it has had a two-hour brushing every two days. It is clipped once a week, gets an extra clipping and has its teeth brushed before every show. And only before shows does Puttencove Promise get bathed; the dog just never gets dirty. In wet weather it is exercised on an outdoor run covered with clean, crushed rock; when the sun is out, it is allowed to romp on a carefully groomed lawn. Its pen has a radio to supply soothing music and a carpet of brown paper, not the usual shreds of newspaper, for newsprint might soil...