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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your shorts, go out in the freezing rain and pound heads and smash bodies together for two hours before lunch. Then, after you've gotten so cold, wet and bruised that you feel like crawling into your General Electric toaster-oven, go out and do it again. Sounds a bit crazy? Well, that's rugby...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Rugby Squad Splits Twin Bill; B Team Captures 'Beanpot' | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...Tucson, which mimics the Phoenix's format and writing style, aims to "inject a little humor in the otherwise humorless Boston news scene" Dennis Giangreco, president of Wet Incorporated, the Tucson's publisher, said yesterday...

Author: By Omar E. Rahman, | Title: New Parody Is Ridiculing The Phoenix | 4/23/1977 | See Source »

...last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that a film version could dispense with this redeeming moralism especially at the expense of Bogart's persona. A remarkably sophisticated insight for a director so seemingly wet behind the ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...will be a long and difficult one. Many of the issues preoccupying Washington during the week are converging -in some cases unexpectedly-on the White House. Meanwhile, outside, the sunny morning will slide into a dark and wet afternoon, though occasional bold rays of sunlight will slice through the tumbling clouds and bathe the budding treetops above the south lawn in startling shades of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: With Jimmy from Dawn to Midnight | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...McKenzie found himself in the midst of a storm so filled with hail that the radar of a trailing jetliner detected what appeared to be a solid form in the black clouds-a great, ominous "hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s, when mail pilots held up a wet finger to see which way the wind was blowing, U.S. aviation has been trying with increasing success to spot weather hazards and route pilots around them. Today's commercial airlines get a steady stream of up-to-the-minute weather reports, including data gleaned by satellites that scan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clawed by the Hook in the Sky | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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