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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Little Brother | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...field was extremely narrow and short, and with eleven men crowded into one half of it for most of the game, it was virtually impossible for Harvard to put the ball through. This, plus the fact that the field was wet, and the Harvard players had difficulty maintaining their balance, gave the UConns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Connecticut Defense Ends Frosh Soccer Streak, 0-0 | 11/7/1967 | See Source »

...Groovy and Linda carried an added burden of horror. They sent a chill through all of hippiedom. In the East Village, the hippies were convinced that it was time to move. The scene would never be the same. "The chick wasn't anything to us," said one wet-eyed hippie girl. "But Groovy, oh, Groovy. It's like our eyes were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Speed Kills | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...oldest dancer is a stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet). Many of the cheers this season, in fact, went to a pair of wet-behind-the-ears gambolers, elfin Robert Blankshine, 18, and athletic Luis Fuente, 21. The company's cheekiness and dramatic flair help strengthen the cause of American ballet by leaps and bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: Ritual in Rock | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...till my wet fur froze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet Who Was There | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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