Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munro gave Ames the green light yesterday, and the junior ace should be in top form this afternoon unless slowed by wet grounds. Bad weather would be a big boost to the Crusaders, with their fast, rough brand of play...
...confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair. "We are wet and dirty but not ashamed," said one dramatically. "The Communists threatened our right to carry this beautiful flag. Now we are fighting for our liberty." The man at the piano struck up the national anthem; all joined...
...innocently ignorant of flies with hooks, big rainbow trout swim serenely in never-fished mountain streams. Rivers churn with exotic fresh-water game-fish that cannot even be found in angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that...
...baseball game with Northeastern, scheduled for Kindlestick Park yesterday afternoon, was put off by wet grounds for the second straight day. Weather permitting, the teams will play today...
...there was Janet Kneeling on the wet grass, crying her brown hen (Translated far beyond the daughters of men) To rise and walk upon...