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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knox, Ward's, Mitchell's -- these are the easy ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Where Have The Explorers Gone? Today's Adventurer Craves A Cave | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...smouldering wet mattress poked out the window and then dropped to the steps below. A fireman stuck out his head, yelled, "Hey, did I hit anybody?" and then tossed out a chair cushion...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Cigarette Kindles K-House Mattress; Firemen Quell Blaze Amidst Cheers | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

Nothing Complicated. Hanratty reacted just about the way any 18-year-old kid would. "Say," he asked Seymour on the day of the game, "are your hands wet?" Replied Jim, with all the confidence of his more advanced years: "Sure. Aren't yours?" It stands to reason that their palms have stopped perspiring by now; nothing ages a man like success, and practically everything they have tried has worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Babes in Wonderland | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...worry. Some night when you're going for your bus. Scuffle, then clunk. There won't be much blood to speak of, just an agony and an aching, and not being able to drag yourself along the wet pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bim Bom Ban Bang On | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Each golfer turns in one or two scores for the two-day tourney. The low ten scores for each House are added up and the House with the lowest total wins. So Kirkland averaged a little over 85 shots a round. Not bad in last week's chilly, wet weather...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Kirkland Takes Golf; Keefe Fires Two 73's | 10/19/1966 | See Source »

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