Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improved the rest of the press box facilities until the services rendered "were as good as we could make them as far as speed and accuracy." There were changes "designed to make the place a little more homey--but on a rainy day, you're still going to get wet in our press box," Pittenger says. "Now that we've got it homey, we want...
Ironically, one of the team's really fine efforts of the year came in defeat. In wet, miserable weather at Hanover, the Crimsan staged a rally that almost caught the favored Dartmouth squad. Fitzgerald, running on a severely injured leg, took second behind the Big Green's Tom Laris. However, this performance finished him for the season with an inflamed Achilles tendon...
...proposal to abolish the "dry" cleaning corps of the student porter system has failed decisively to pass the Committee on Houses. As opposed to "wet" cleaners, who disinfect the bathrooms, the "drys" vacuum each room once a week...
...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
...jovial Mayor J. W. (for James Willis) Godfrey, gas-station operator hand-picked and backed in five re-elections by the local political boss, spectacled Ralph Dawson, who doubles as city attorney. Mayor Godfrey drawls that the light, "being a machine, might vary four to five seconds in wet weather," admits that rain comes often enough for the light to produce a quarter or more of the town's $12,000 to $15,000 annual budget. But local members of the Good Government League, organized by polio-crippled Mail Carrier Harry Chapman to fight the "Dawson crowd...