Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poisonous. This slight but real possibility of toxic consequence has little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
Friday was cold, dreary, wet and generally miserable. As one Crimson lineman put it, "it was not a very good day to play football." With occasional exceptions, the Crimson did not play great football that afternoon...
Sweet Talk & Styleplus. In this curiously tribal world Bill was a natural leader. He could hurl wet corncobs at the neighboring kids with greater accuracy than either of his brothers; he could ride a horse bareback as no other Faulkner could; he could invent tales with such surpassing guile that for one whole winter he sweet-talked a schoolmate into slopping the hogs for him-in return for which service Bill entertained him with stories of madness and murder...
First he spun the soft wet clay into flat dishes, then bulging pots. Slapping them together, he formed twisting columns and knobby mountains. He hardened and fired them into strong ceramic towers, and suddenly they ceased being pottery and became sculpture...
...until he discovered all its possibilities. Monumentality gripped him from the beginning. "I had lots of stuff fall down on me," he says. "I'd be up on a ladder and working, and all of a sudden I'd be on the floor, under a mass of wet clay...