Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A throat-drying English thriller, built around Kim Stanley's subtly menacing performance as a deranged medium whose "voices" tell her to kidnap a child...
...Washington Congressmen from all sections of the nation expressed their anger, though only one Southerner did so publicly. "I abhor this brutality," cried Texas Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough. "Shame on you, George Wallace, for the wet ropes that bruised the muscles, for the bullwhips that cut the flesh, for the clubs that broke the bones, for the tear gas that blinded, burned and choked into insensibility...
First to hit the beach was Corporal Garry Parsons, who splashed onto the wet sand and sprinted 50 yards into a stand of pine trees-and a platoon of photographers. Parsons' comment was candid if not immortal. Cried he, "I'm glad to get off that damned ship...
Johnson warned his audience to be ware of Republican diversionary strategy. "When I was a boy, the folks that molded the opinion kept us debating whether we were wet or dry, Prohibition or anti-Prohibition." Today, Johnson declared, speaking figuratively, his opponents "are going to try to bring up the old wet and dry fight, or some other old fight that will prejudice you. But the time has come when we no longer listen to those who oppose for opposition's sake...
...human chains of skindivers working at night. At the same time, the vicoli (back alleys) of Naples were ablaze with Oriental rugs hung out to dry and the narrow streets shaded by bolts of damp cloth stretched from window to win dow. The stalls of Forcella were glutted with wet Olivetti typewriters selling for as little...