Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blocking position" between the encircling Communists and the South Vietnamese relief column. With this muscle behind them, the stalled South Vietnamese task force, now moving again, found that Communist resistance was melting away, pushed into Due Co with no trouble. "Hammer & Anvil." In the wet, checkered flats of the Mekong Delta, American airmen and South Vietnamese ground troops combined mobility with killing power in a smooth "hammer and anvil" operation near Can Tho. Four companies of South Vietnamese, acting as the "hammer," drove a battalion of Viet Cong ahead...
...from Betty Grable's legs, John Barrymore's profile, Shirley Temple's seven-year-old scrawl ("Love to the World") and his ex-Wife Ava Gardner's feet, Singer Frank Sinatra, 49, knelt, did the old Hollywood salaam and planted his palms in the wet concrete beside the rococo Grauman's Chinese Theater. Then Frank struck a Jolsonesque pose for Daughters Nancy and Tina and about 3,000 faithful who turned up for the messy rites, some of them dangling from the limbs of trees...
...mass that is stuck over the north eastern U.S. Under normal conditions, the prevailing winds that sweep from west to east across the U.S. at altitudes ranging from one to five miles fluctuate between downhill (northwest-southeast) and uphill (southwest-northeast) courses, which produce alternating dry and wet weather. On the uphill course the air rises, eventually cools off enough to produce condensation, clouds and rain. Just the opposite happens on the downhill cycle: air flowing from northwest to southeast moves lower as it reaches the east coast, becomes warmer, drier, and loses its rainmaking potential. Since 1961 the downhill...
...hands and arms of a jockey; his eyesight is phenomenal. His reflexes are so fast that he could probably pluck a fly out of midair. Clark's business adviser, John Stephenson, remembers a midwinter ride in a sedan with Jim two years ago. "The road was wet and frosty," says Stephenson. "Suddenly we were going into a tight downhill lefthander. I figured it as a 70-m.p.h. corner-but there we were doing 90. The tail started to go, and I thought, this is a shunt for sure. Then Jim made a tiny correction with the steering wheel...
...plates. Said one surf-farer, a Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles away. Decked out in neoprene "wet suits," booties and mittens, diehards rode the waves through last winter as far north as Boston...