Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late as the Depression, Americans starved. "In the wet hay of leaking barns," wrote John Steinbeck, "old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them." About 2,000 Americans still die yearly from diseases of malnutrition, and many of the poor are poorly fed. The official U.S. poverty definition is based on the Department of Agriculture's "economy" food plan ("essentially for emergency use"): large helpings of bread, rice, dried beans and peas, cereals, rare servings of meat, no out-of-season or convenience foods...
Oddly enough, the President's almost unprecedented success with Congress deeply disturbs some observers. Republicans naturally echo House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's complaint that it has been "a weak, wet noodle" in Johnson's hands. Some independent critics object that important legislation has been rammed through almost without debate-though only a few years ago, when Congress was chronically deadlocked over vital bills, reformers argued that its machinery had become an unworkable anachronism...
...Negro sergeant was sprawled in a ditch full of water. Over the steady drumfire of the rain came the cough, whoosh, crump of Viet Cong mortars. The sergeant counted on his fingers the seconds from the time of firing to the time of detonation, then lit a drooping wet cigarette and casually announced "Them's incoming sixties landin' over there 'bout a hundred yards. Nothin' to worry about." He took off his helmet wiped his face. "You know, we Airborne, we like to get things done real fast, get in there quick and out quick killin...
...Wet Cement. While Nehru's India preached neutralism, Pakistan early joined every alliance in sight. It was an original member of CENTO, it belongs to SEATO, and would have joined NATO if it could have. Pakistan signed a bilateral defense treaty with the U.S. in 1954 and supplied the U.S. with the Peshawar airfield as a convenient base for U-2 spy planes flying over Russia...
...central air conditioning in offices and apartments. Though 110 inspectors fanned out to enforce the curb, the city issued a summons to only one offender−the landlord of the local FBI office. The Water Department nabbed another kind of offender: the Parks Department, which was caught wet-handed sprinkling golf greens in dead of night...