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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, which skirts the edge of the athletic fields near soldier's Field Road, was blocked enough by mud and puddles, to prompt Floyd S. Wilson, Director of Intramural Athletics, to warn the house runners about "getting their feet wet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Harriers Struggle in Mud | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

...Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg in Act II looked as though they had been rooted to the Met's stage for a hundred years. Visually and vocally, Die Meistersinger was as successful a new production as the Met had offered since its still outstanding Don Giovanni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boost for Wagner | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...notable instances, the filmmakers felt a need to tone down Author Fleming's unbuttoned imagination. In the book, the heroine is walking a beach nude with a knife-belt strapped about her when Bond first sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book, the villainous Doctor No is buried alive inside a 20-ft. mound of bird droppings. In the movie, he is cleanly boiled in a nuclear reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: No, No, A Thousand Times No | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Arizona and New Mexico, every town now can have its own lake for swimming, fishing and boating." he says. "This will create a new market for boatmakers and make life more pleasant for arid-zone aquatic-sports fans, many of whom now travel hundreds of miles just to get wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Lakemakers | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Running on a wet course, the varsity cross-country squad defeated slightly-favored Cornell in its opening meet on Saturday, 26-29. Harvard times were slow in the mud at Ithaca, and Captain Hamlin called the outcome "a victory without distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross-Country Triumphs Over Favored Ithacans | 10/8/1962 | See Source »

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