Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest did not escape a bitter taint. One disgruntled competitor in Wednesday's preliminaries complained to the CRIMSON about "the disqualification of my own entry -- a large spitball -- on the grounds that it was wet. Wet, yes. It is the nature of a spitball to be wet. Illegal, no. My entry was made of paper, as the rules required...
...physicians are still anxious to discover exactly how the debilitating process works. A "good beer drinker" himself, Dr. Sullivan pointed out that not a single case was reported among any brewery employees, although they are allowed to wet their whistles while they work. In recent months, Dr. Sullivan has been trying to induce the disease in rats by feeding them cobalt-laced beer. Unfortunately, he reports, "our beer-drinking rats are the fattest, happiest rats around...
...according to one Tiger player, "the best coach in basketball-from Monday through Friday." But when game time rolls around, he turns into a Tiger-screaming at his players, snarling at referees. A loss sends him into a paroxysm of frustration; even a victory leaves him wan and wet with perspiration. Not until the season is over and the pressure is off does Butch become a good guy again. Then he's off to sing a chorus of the Cannon Song and hoist a glass with "my guys...
...British tailors, machine-press suits on a standard form that tends to stamp out whatever shape was tailored in. But Huntsman, for one, has an answer for even that. Once a year or so, its customers send their suits back to London and Huntsman will have them wet-cleaned and pressed by hand, thus returning the suit to its original texture and shape. Huntsman's magic ingredient? Scotch river water...
...that I am credited with the superhuman task of washing 130,000 negatives "one by one." You should let your readers know that there were teams involving about 40 people who worked very hard for a week, which finally accomplished the task. As for the freezing of wet manuscripts: a nice theory never put into practice here, as no refrigerator cars or freezing plant were available...