Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more, waiting for berths. Rangoon's ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...
...years, get no help at all. But granting their limitations, there is no doubt that the drugs have effected a revitalization (if not a Baileyan revolution) in mental hospitals. One psychiatrist after another reported that his hospital had nearly abandoned the use of psychosurgery, electric and insulin shock, tubs, wet packs and restraints. In many state hospitals the former "disturbed wards" are now places of peace and quiet...
Despite its 70-degree temperatures, balmy yesterday just wasn't a baseball day. H.A.A. officials walked out on Soldiers Field in the morning and decided it was too wet to play Northeastern. The postponement, the second this season, gave Coach Shepard a chance to hold additional auditions for the third base spot, now held jointly by Matt Botsford and Stu Levine. The leading candidate this time was Tony Markella...
...Soldiers Field hasn't been so soggy in many springs as it is this year," Carroll F. Getchell, of 60 Boylston St., laments. "All the attention is on how much varsity sports suffer when the ground is wet, but the present condition is worse for the University's more populated intramural program," he points...
...mustache with a dressing (which hardened when dry), then applied the Schnurrbart binder made of netlike material, shaped to go under the nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn, and the wet mustache combed into the flat spread-eagle shape [see cut] which was the reward all next day for the rather tortuous all-night care not to misplace the binder...