Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dartmouth baseball team jumped on Harvard pitcher Ray Peters for three runs in the fourth inning, added two more in the fifth, and coasted in from there to win a wet 5-0 baseball game yesterday in the rain at Splinter Stadium...
...example, it took a pressure of 4 lbs. per sq. in. to make a dent 1½ in. deep in the lunar surface. And TV pictures demonstrated that there was little or no crum bling of the trench walls, indicating that the soil was quite cohesive, perhaps like wet sand...
...congregated in the summers at his sprawling house on Long Island's Oyster Bay. He loved to lead them on cross-country hikes, and if he climbed over a huge log or waded through a muddy pond, each child was expected to do the same. When one wet and bedraggled little Roosevelt tried to explain to her angry mother that she merely had followed the leader, the mother snapped: "Just because your cousin Theodore behaves like an idiot is no reason why you should behave like an idiot...
...weather -- all the lousy sleet and rain and snow and cold and wet -- has hurt the golf team, and captain Brian McGuinn and his crew simply don't know what to expect when they tee the ball up tomorrow at Pleasant Valley Country Club and take big swipes at it with their drivers...
...tragedy consume themselves in flaming arcs of passion as they streak across the night sky of destiny. Playwright Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) has had the dubious inspiration to modernize the Phaedra plot of Euripides and Racine and play it cool. His drama is as incendiary as a wet match head...