Word: wet
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...Both tears and sweat are wet and salty, but they render a different result...
...scene was Honan, a province about the size of Missouri, but inhabited by 32 million peasants who grew wheat, corn, millet, soybeans, and cotton. Honan was a fine flat plain whose soil was a powdered, yellow loess which, when wet with rain, oozed with fertility. And which, when the rains did not come, grew nothing; then the peasants died. The rains had not come in 1942, and by 1943, Honan peasants, we heard in Chungking, were dying...
According to Jarvis, Warren persuaded him to sell his newspapers and move to the golden land. "When I arrived there, I was wet behind the ears; all I had was money," recalls Jarvis. Nonetheless, he went on to make considerably more, first with an Oakland chemical firm and then after World War II, by running a chain of home-appliance factories employing 13,000 people. In 1962, fearing that the pressure would give him a heart attack (his second wife died of a heart attack), Jarvis decided to retire and planned an extended vacation...
...gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...
...kowtow to the great canoeists. All we want is a fun weekend-strictly amateur. We cater to the everyday Joe who wants to bring his kids here and have a good time." By those criteria, North Creek's derby this year, as always, was a success. Cold and wet, but a success...