Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory over Columbia and give the Crimson a split in a doubleheader that started in New Jersey and ended in New York. That morning, Harvard was throttled 8-0 by Princeton in a replay of a game that been scheduled for Friday but was postponed because of wet grounds...
...wet snow on the first day of the march fed this quiet emotion. The students trudged through the slush all day Friday and through much of the night feeling brave and somewhat martyred. The march ended Saturday in a solemn procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two miles away, where the demonstrators stood silently among the rows of clean white tombstones each representing a death...
...regions. Even the names are striking: Brest and Quimper, Kernascléden and Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany is a village that doesn't quite fit. Gourin (pop. 3,000) is fat, smart and happy...
...could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
...forest went up in flames-precisely as U.S. planners had figured. Then came the sort of absurd disaster for which the Viet Nam war has become famous. The intense heat of the Boiloi boil caused the wet, tropical air overhead to condense into giant thunderclouds. The "thermal convective condition," as U.S. Air Force meteorologists later defined it, triggered a drenching downpour that doused the forest fire and left Boiloi's Viet Cong safe and unsinged in their caves...