Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field to score a three-point field goal. In the second quarter, Quarterback Charley Conerly, 33, master of the wet ball, passed the pros into a 10-6 lead...
...cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...
Nothing affects business like the weather, and the weather affects every business differently. Snow sells cough drops but slows construction; a wet spring makes farmers buy fungicide by the carload but gives air-conditioner manufacturers the shudders; at the first frost orchids and oranges perish but antifreeze and ski-wax sales bloom again. Yet only a few businessmen can depend on the U.S. Weather Bureau's generalized daily reports for the information they need. To get the precise, specially tailored reports they want, more and more companies are turning to private weathermen, who tell them what the weather will...
...Cooper, 20, for the title, he left his sulks in the clubhouse. His tennis was awesome. Serves powered by his thick shoulders and muscle-rippled arm had Cooper frantically switching his racket from forehand to backhand. Volleys flicked dust from the base line. Backhand lobs plopped into corners like wet sponges. Up in the stands, stunned tennis fans, many of them longtime Hoad baiters, talked aloud of such oldtime greats as America's Bill Tilden or Jack Kramer, and wondered whether Hoad's game did not rank him among them. It was all over in 55 minutes. Afterwards...
Elsewhere, college students were putting away their books and preparing for vacation. At Nags Head, N.C. last week, 97 students were just arriving for class. Old anglers anxious to learn new tricks and novices who had never wet a line lugged tackle from as far south as Florida, as far west as Illinois for a short course in sport fishing, sponsored by North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. They were the kind of pupils a professor prays for-housewives, doctors, lawyers, mechanics. None had a thought of cutting a class; all were anxious for final exams, the chance...