Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcrowded red brick buildings, Psychiatrist Dean C. Tasher had seen hundreds of patients drift downhill to the "very disturbed" wards where they persisted in lying naked on the floor in their own filth, and some eventually to the hydrotherapy ward, where they had to be kept in tubs or wet packs for most...
Churchill's opposite number in France, Paul Reynaud, was a man of "innate loyalty and pluck." But the men who stood closest to Reynaud were, in Spears's eyes, a diversity of wet blankets with a single aim-to extinguish the fire in their Premier's heart. The chief among them...
...spite of wet brush (which hampers the dogs' work), a cold wind (which causes quail to take cover) and the gathering dusk, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury bagged two birds each. But for most of the time the President was in Georgia, the weather was so unpleasant that he stayed inside and resorted to bridge. This week Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower were back in the White House to observe, as they always do, their engagement anniversary. On St. Valentine's Day, 39 years ago, Lieut. Eisenhower gave a duplicate of his West Point class ring...
...work. At one point on Sunday morning, there were as many as 50. Sometimes there was only one, Carl Heminger. whose specialty is showing colored slides at church gatherings. Preacher Locy preached as he never preached before, sustaining himself with lemon juice and vegetables, refreshing himself with a wet towel around his head, relieving himself at the back of the building, and talking into the mike all the time. After 24 hours he got to the Book of Psalms, and Georgia brought him a plate of hot food from their trailer home next door. Spooning in some beans, Preacher Locy...
When the rains come the aborigines retire into their bark huts, and while away the wet by painting on bark. The pictures (opposite) may look abstract, but aboriginal art is never "nonobjective" in the modern sense: to paint without painting something would strike an aborigine as uncivlized. His subject matter ranges from the constellations through crabs and kangaroos to "Night People," i.e. ghosts...