Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first stop was Charleston, W.Va., where, on a cold, wet night, he drew a good crowd of 2,800 to an auditorium that had seats for 3,517. Next stop was Canton. Ohio, where he drew 4,000 to an auditorium built for 6,000-competing with bad weather and a championship high-school basketball game. From there he went on to Mt. Clemens, Mich., then to a jampacked, impassioned session with 1,000 of his fellow Wisconsinites in Madison's Eagles Hall. Sample McCarthy extravagance: "The Democratic label is now the property of men who have been unwilling...
...G.C.A. do the talking. G.C.A. altered the bomber's course a degree as it let down to 1,500 ft. "Come on down, come on down," said G.C.A. in a relaxed voice. "You're right on now. Steady. It's raining, and the landing strips are wet and slippery. Easy...
...right," he said. Seconds later, the wheels chirped on the runway. The B-47 didn't bounce, just scraped, then the plane settled into a smooth landing. The air speed registered 100 knots, and the pilot could feel his wheels sliding on the slippery, wet pavement. "Drag chute out. Drag chute out," he called. Before he finished the order, the copilot had the brake-parachute billowing behind the plane to slow the speed...
...left him "a little embarrassed, but darned proud." He had won the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan award as the nation's No. 1 amateur athlete in 1953. Sammy was embarrassed because he was so busy being an Army medic that he never even got his feet wet in diving competition last year...
...Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...