Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's chief-of-state, Luigi Einaudi, according to Rome Bureau Chief George Jones, has taken to reading TIME during his morning bath. His explanation: "It's just the convenient size, and you can go on reading even if it gets wet...
...crew later, "was the easiest part." Eleven of the men landed in a twelve-square-mile area on the northwest shoulder of the desolate, storm-swept island. Most of them landed in trees, disentangled themselves from chute shrouds and branches and spent the first night wrapped in wet nylon or under inflated rubber dinghies taken from their parachute seat packs. Captain Barry, last to leave his stricken ship, came down in a shallow pond and spent the rest of the miserable night on the shore. Corporal Richard J. Schuler passed a wakeful, uneasy night alone listening to a bear prowl...
...Rescue. In scattered twos and threes the airmen painfully worked their way down to the beach. The wood was too wet for fires. Continuing bad weather hampered search craft. But in the afternoon of the second day, the Canadian fishing ship Cape Perry sighted two of the men signaling from the shore, and in a short time it had picked up ten. Late the same day, a detail from the Canadian destroyer Cayuga reached Trippodi, who was by now delirious, suffering from exhaustion, shock and frostbitten feet. In all, twelve were rescued...
...representatives also. There the bone-dry bill rested safely in a pigeonhole in the Temperance Committee when the legislature closed its session last week. Had the bill reached the floor, and had Dr. Billy put in an appearance, legislators thought it might well have passed. Many a Georgia wet lifted his thanksgiving dram shakily, at so close a call...
Southern Methodist University in Dallas reported that 13 undergraduates were enrolled in its new one-credit course: bait-casting. One of 16 alternative sections in Physical Education 12A, a required course for sophomores, it offered instruction three hours a week in the art of casting the dry and wet...