Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder to behold so far this year; the Elis have pounded their first four opponents. And the defense has been adequate, although it has not been seriously challenged. Cornell showed us last week that it has no offense, and if Lalich and the boys got 10 points on a wet field, then Yale will score more than enough to win. The comparative score will be closely watched by Harvard Coach John Yovicsin. It will be about Yale 23, Cornell...
...ranch hand with five children, told of painstakingly saving enough pesos to pay off a smuggler. With others, he journeyed to Piedras Negras opposite Eagle Pass, Texas. "Night came," he recounted later. "We took all our clothes, rolled them in a bundle so they wouldn't get wet, then waded across the river naked, holding our clothes over our heads." The wetbacks met "The Man" in a thicket. He took their money, then locked them in the truck. After 15 minutes on the road, the cramped Mexicans discovered that there was no ventilation. "The air was gone," Pantoja said...
Director Dusan Vukotic's parodies of TV commercials, bureaucracy and the like may be daring back home, but they sink slowly in the West. And the film's whimsy is often as thick as wet sand. Still, Vukotic's insights into child psychology are often ingenious, and his blend of animation and bright, appealing color occasionally makes The Seventh Continent look like a feat of Klee...
...Soviet Union knows very well how to deal with dissidence from its disaffected artists and writers. Their criticism is dismissed as the predictable plaints of those whom Lenin scornfully characterized as the khliupiki or "intellectual wet rags." The dissidents themselves are sent to asylums or to jail. It is a far different matter, however, when the dissenter is an honored, brilliant and necessary figure in the Soviet Establishment...
...Riverine's little boats would slip into the maze of marshlands for long patrols, far from the medical and military aid of the mother ship anchored in one of the larger rivers. The most obvious means of supply was by helicopter, but most of the Delta is too wet and soft to support the weight of a chopper...