Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...
...both the varsity and students, and the Stadium received a new turf. Nothing was done about seating in the Stadium, however, and a CRIMSON reports noted that heavy rains before the Penn football game caused him and his date Susan to suffer through the contest with freezing hands and "wet bottoms...
When I bought my '55 car (one of the Big Three), resplendent in chromium and sea-mist green, I covered the shiny part of the steering wheel with masking tape and painted the wiper arms flat black. A friend told me how to use wet sandpaper to eliminate the glare from the hood over the instrument panel...
...never been terribly hard to tell a society matron from a schoolgirl. One has a corsage of wet violets pinned to her lapel and the other smells faintly of peanut butter. But over the past few years both clubwomen and students, along with salesgirls, social workers, grandmothers and governesses, have adopted a common undergarment, and whatever the figure and however different the proportions, the total basic result is the same. Everyone is wearing stretch tights...
From Bermuda to Barbados and back again to Boca Raton, ladies will wrap pullovers about them to hide the suit that never got wet or to match the short shorts (Bermudas are now for bicycling only) that came with the outfit. They may still have one in jersey left over from last summer but, more likely they will follow the trend to offbeat fabrics ranging all the way from suede to satin. An occasional girl will turn up in a plain old vanilla terry-cloth jacket or playsuit, but most of her fellow travelers will sport the same fabric colored...