Word: wet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some people say it looks like porcelain and feels like the skin you love to touch. Others think it looks more like something peeled off the kitchen table. It makes raincoats seem wet before they are out of the closet and slacks look as though their wearer had just stepped out of a rocket ship. It is the latest gift from the U.S. to the haute couture. It's vinyl...
...turns are arm-wrenching-especially if the skier comes into one from the inside of the channel-and the fixed route may seem a bit monotonous to those accustomed to figure-eighting ad lib in the great wet open spaces. But for beginners, there are certain advantages in water skiing desert-style. It is relatively cheap; Maxwell sells three turns around the slightly more than half-mile course for 50?, versus about $15 an hour for a motorboat and driver. There is no speedboat wake to cope with. And after a spill it is only a short wade to shore...
...Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
...crossed lovers, leans more on drama than dance. Beyond a lovely pas de deux in the first act, Nureyev and Fonteyn had little chance to display their glittering technique, so involved were they in acting out the complexities of the plot. Nureyev, despite a wig that looked like a wet dishrag, was a compelling and thoroughly convincing hero. Free of exaggeration, he masterfully portrayed Romeo as a roustabout turned rapt lover. The evening, however, belonged to Fonteyn. Though 45, she was every inch the teenage Juliet, brimming with the dart and dash of adolescence. She began by cavorting kittenishly with...
...slowed to about half speed in the period as players slipped and fell the wet field. Harvard closed the gap 6:30 before the Ephs added...