Word: wet
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That statistical evidence can be quite deceiving. After a pioneer era of hard drinking and a ridiculous interlude of prohibition, the U.S. is neither wet nor dry but just moist. In 1860, it consumed 3.25 gallons of distilled spirits per capita; today that figure is only slightly more than 1.5 gallons. What has happened is that per-capita wine consumption has risen from one-third gallon to nearly one gallon a year; the consumption of malt liquors (beer and ale) from about three gallons to more than 16. Indeed, beer, which contains only 4% alcohol, as against 12% for table...
...admitted to the California bar in 1965, and be came a shining young legal light at O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles' largest law firm. But he was troubled. "I was just making more secure the people who already had security. It was like walking on wet sand and leaving no footprints...
...equipment would not penetrate deeply enough to show the interior of the sculpture. But on Sept. 15, Noble, using equipment developed to inspect the six-inch-thick steel hulls of nuclear submarines, was able to have a gamma-ray shadowgraph made. "They held up the film dripping wet, and for the first time I could see inside the horse," he says. "I could see the sand core, the iron wire and the iron points. That...
...wet, dug-up ground slowed the ball and Brown fullback Walt Scott-Craig caught up to it and cleared it wide...
...price of canned fruit is going up in supermarkets throughout the U.S. Reason: California, which produces 40% of the U.S.'s fruit, had a wet, cold, late spring that has resulted in a disastrous autumn...