Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with its attempt to go wet...
...Clinics are run under unsanitary conditions, and use haphazard procedures. This has sometimes led to severe infections and internal damage that later requires the patient to have a hysterectomy. In one clinic the staff cleaned procedure rooms between patients by wiping up blood with wet tissues. One doctor, Arnold Bickham of the Water Tower Reproductive Center, went from one abortion to the next without washing his hands or donning sterile gloves. Another doctor, Carlos Baldoceda of Biogenetics Ltd., performed an abortion while a nurse gave him what the Sun-Times described as a "sensual massage," and on another occasion...
...stood staring until the two men caught up. Then they stood and stared. I talked to them. They had no food, no dry clothes, no tent and only wet down sleeping bags which sap heat from cold bodies. They were defenseless, and worse, they were succumbing. I didn't think I could cross the stream alone even though it looked as though Adrian had. I wondered if I shouldn't set up the tent, get in the sleeping bag and bite through the plastic bag at my belt to get crackers and chocolate and try to save...
Both teams have beaten their common opponents, usually by similar margins, but Harvard has shutout Brown twice while UMass tied them, 3-3. If it rains, a wet field will hurt UMass more since they rely heavily on their ground game, but most indications are that the game will be close...
...That "drinking fountain surfaces which become wet during fountain operation shall be constructed of materials impervious to water...