Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyndon, leader, wet nurse and a very unmythological character. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Half the country is burned by the sun, and the other half drowned by the river, while the whole is waterlogged with debt." This description of the Indus valley, made long ago by a British official, holds true today. But the wet and dry Indus valley has a further melancholy distinction: as much as anything else except Kashmir, it serves to keep India and Pakistan at swords' points...
Losers Win. In the race for the winner's purse, dancers wiped out their rivals by slipping them Mickeys or Ex-Lax. Old-timers advised first-timers to don wet stockings (it gave them blisters); women slugged other women cold. Men and women huddled and sometimes made love while wrapped in blankets. "I never did understand the spectators," says June. "They neglected home, children, work. They were drawn to us by the climate of cruelty in the world. Our degradation was entertainment; sadism was sexy; masochism was talent...
...body splattered with black, sticky mud lay off the road near San Stephano on a tiny West Indian isle--flabby, middle-aged, and wet from an afternoon thunder-storm. Courtney Courtney Peabody had drowned in the rain. A half-finished letter found in his hotel room contained his last recorded words: "Gee, mom, it's hot as hell down here. When can I come home?" The letter, like Courtney's life, must remain uncompleted...
...only a puddle. Four or five months later they come back to me." In much the manner of the old Zen painters, De Kooning believes the image must come all at once or not at all. When his three-year-old daughter Lisbeth put her hands on the wet paint, he left the palm print rather than doctor the surface and destroy the spontaneous feeling. "I'm not trying to be a virtuoso," he explains, "but I have to do it fast. It's not like poker, where you can build to a straight flush or something...