Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their belongings and left New Orleans...
...construct for himself some sort of image of his daughter's childhood that he was missing. "I try to picture her emptying the ashtrays. All I can see is her, with a surprised, half-whimpering look on her face, with half a cigarette in one hand and rubbing wet tobacco into her face with the other...
TIME makes a valid point in criticizing the current tendency of popular records to cannibalize one another. Singing verb conjugations of the You're All Wet (thesis), No I'm Not All Wet (antithesis), He Was All Wet and Now He's Got a Cold, Kachoo (synthesis) type is unforgivable. They are symptomatic of the control over radio programing that children and adolescents have today. Records that allude to one another and answer one another are designed to give the children who listen to them, buy them and dance to them a feeling of continuity...
...periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently in their tubes in the compartment that the submen call "Sherwood Forest." They must be wet-nursed hour by hour, their computers prepared to receive fire-control data, their gyros kept warmed and ready, their switches checked and rechecked so that they can be fired on 15 minutes' notice. The main atomic power plants must be tended by technicians with a highly specialized training that...
...wife Margaret and three children, because it is a university town. He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor. Recently, in a competing car, he was once more reminded of quality. The car stalled in a rainstorm. It took McNamara, soaking wet, three hitchhikes to get home...