Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotel room: it was newly decorated, but she insisted that it be done again with expensive English wallpaper. So sore was the Melbourne Truth (circ. 120.000) that it printed a shot of Ava emerging from the surf bedraggled and clutching at her bikini. Headlined the Truth: AVA ALL WET...
...very wet corn snow, Crimson captain Don Stephenson won, Bill Niemi and Al Arkley finishing third and fourth respectively. Though Harvard's victory was quite decisive with only three racing for each college, the total times for the two teams were extremely close: Harvard 217 sec., Yale...
...reaction to the inscription Kassem had written on his autographed photo. It read: "This is my gift to every noble newsman who battles for freedom of the people everywhere in the world." For a distillation of McHale's report, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Dry & the Wet...
...commiserated with an editor whose offices had been smashed by Red-led street mobs. "People should not have done that," mused General Kassem. "They should have left matters in the hands of the law. But the revolution is a fire, and in this fire both the dry and the wet burn." It was a metaphor to ponder...
...revolution of 1948. He arrived early for the big workers' parade in downtown Havana, sat dutifully on the speakers' stand while the unions marched, did not flinch when a drizzle began and Castro ordered the stand's striped tarpaulin ripped away, saying: "If the people get wet, we get wet...