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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight years ago, Bruce Brown began traveling through Southern California to show his 16mm surfing film, Slippery When Wet, to crowds of the initiated in high school auditoriums...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: The Endless Summer | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...films, however, haven't changed much, although even the august New York critics felt moved to comment on his newest and first nationally distributed film, The Endless Summer. He produced, directed, filmed, narrated, and edited it himself, and it has all the spontaneity and informality of Slippery When Wet. He still makes home movies...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: The Endless Summer | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Misfortune almost struck again in the final race as the hiking strap broke, dropping Underwood into the water. The game but wet senior clambered back on board in time to come in three boats ahead of the B.U. Challenger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Fleet Triumphs, Foes Flail in III Wind | 10/13/1966 | See Source »

...years-and the Birds were flying. The delirious Orioles poured magnums of champagne over each other's heads; beer cans, pickles, jars of mustard and cartons of milk sailed through the dressing room. Club Owner Jerry Hoffberger was heaved bodily into the shower. He staggered out soaking wet, grabbed a telephone, and placed a person-to-person call to a Mr. William O. DeWitt in Cincinnati. "Mr. DeWitt?" crooned Hoffberger. "I just want to tell you how much I appreciate everything you have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Thanks, Bill | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...using "capitalist-smelling" pomade. The barbers struck back, and two teen-age Guards fell, slashed to death. In a Peking side street, a woman wept as her neighbor was led away-but she was weeping for joy. The old man had once hired her for the humiliating duty of wet-nursing his children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Back to the Cave! | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

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