Word: wet
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...cold, wet spring of 1945, the Allied Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower crossed the Rhine and began the great sweep across the German plain toward juncture with Soviet armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition...
...water level was below the wing of the plane he said, and "I didn't even get my feet wet." Thorndike is in charge of all surgery for Harvard students, faculty, and staff, and also serves as physician for the College's athletic teams...
...Karim Ago Khan, 24, spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, and Anouchka von Meks, 19, pert French-bred daughter of a German clothier, went briefly on the rocks. Bound for Sardinia in Karim's 15 ton cabin cruiser Taara, the pair suddenly found themselves lodged high and wet on a well-marked reef near Corsica's Gulf of Ajaccio. After the Taara was towed ashore, the Harvard-educated prince was informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they...
...novel's autocratic soap tycoon (fictional counterpart of Tobacco Baron George Washington Hill) demonstrated the impact of the hard sell with a simple gesture: he spat on the boardroom table. In many contemporary board rooms, the demonstration might have succeeded only in getting the chairman's shoes wet. Reason: the latest trend in office design is the tableless board room...
Harangues & Ice Water. In most cases the prisoners lack adequate water for drinking and sanitation. The men get no medical attention, often sleep on wet dungeon floors, are lucky to get one meal a day. There seems to be little physical torture. Castro uses the Communists' more subtle psychological methods. Loudspeakers din the dictator's speeches over and over; uncooperative prisoners are plunged into ice water, shifted back and forth from brightly lit cells to black solitary confinement, questioned for endless hours. The VIPs (very important prisoners) are sometimes forced, Chinese-style, to dig their own graves before...