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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cotton, plain-necked, sleeveless, and fairly short of skirt, with side slits topped by tiny bows. Priced from $2.98 to about $50.00 the shift can go practically anywhere on practically anyone. It is fine for toe-testing at the ocean's edge, or to cover up wet bathing suits for drinks on the clubhouse verandah (après beach, nothing picks one up like a good belt). It is also socially acceptable for cocktails and dinner at the most exclusive playgrounds in the East. And house wives love it. "Just perfect," says one enthusiast, "not only cool, but some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Shift Ahoy! | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...summer sky still breaks over the land in splinters of green, gold or luminous waves of grey, staining the hills blue and purple and vermilion, heaping the valleys with shimmering veils of mist. In that weird, wet Atlantic light-or so they say-the swarthy chieftains and pale queens who once ruled the five kingdoms of Celtic Ireland still clatter across country. As the island's endless sleight-of-sky creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

President Mary I. Bunting of Radcliffe conferred the Bachelor of Arts degree on 290 members of the Senior class yesterday morning, as threatening skies and wet benches forced Radcliffe's 81st commencement exercises into Sanders Theatre...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: 'Cliffe Graduates 290; Stevenson Gives Speech | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

...varsity lacrosse team slogged through snow, rain, and sleet in Hanover yesterday, but got little more than wet feet for its efforts. Dartmouth downed the Crimson 13 to 7, ending whatever hopes Harvard retained for a respectable finish in the Ivy League...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Dartmouth Defeats Varsity Ten 13-7; King's Four Goals Pace Indian Win | 5/13/1963 | See Source »

...looks like a sad sack, but to the female wearer it has advantages. Depending on the wearer's particular problem, she may either remain beach-bound, confident that her figure will go undetected under such bulk, or plunge headlong into the sea, secure in the knowledge that a wet blouson clings like Saran Wrap; one fast ocean dip and what was hidden is made spectacularly manifest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Suiting Up | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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