Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma, men wear skirts. They wrap the skirts, which are called longyis, around the hips and gather them at the waist in one simple, unknotted hitch. The longyi has its advantages: one can bathe in it without undressing (by wrapping a dry longyi over the wet one and dropping the wet one in the bath), which is convenient since in Burma the poor usually bathe at public wells or faucets; one can also unhitch the longyi in Burma's uncomfortable humidity, spreading the cloth with an easy, billowing motion, letting in a refreshing draft of air without exposure. Longyis...
According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
...staff cameraman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has been busier lately than an old-fashioned wet-plate photographer at Coney Island. He has snapped pictures of no fewer than 106 G.O.P. congressional candidates with a beaming Dwight Eisenhower, and there is still a waiting list of anxious politicians. Last week, at his regular press conference, Ike was asked what qualifications a Congressman needed to get into a presidential picture. His answer was a brief essay on party loyalty and Ike's own plans for the coming campaign. It was also a warning to Republican irregulars...
...pumping east from Grenoble on the 18th lap of their 25-day marathon, and rain could easily wash out the slim time advantage held by French Favorite Louison Bobet, 29. His rival, Swiss Champion Ferdi Rubier, 35, was an old hand at the hazards of mountain bicycle riding. A wet road might bother Bobet; Kubler might gain an unbeatable lead...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...