Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half turned into a war of attrition as each team lost players in brutal scrum battles on a wet and icy turf. Only near the end of the half could fullback Gary Bond break the stalemate by making a winding run that resulted in Harvard's first four points...
...Green Revolution were specifically created by plant geneticists to thrive under the optimum growing conditions of recent years. They are particularly vulnerable to vagaries of weather. A decline in moisture can significantly reduce their yields; they can also become susceptible to blights and pests. It was a bout of wet, chilly air during the growing season that apparently touched off the Middle Ages' outbreaks of St. Anthony's fire -excruciatingly painful convulsions and gangrenous hands and feet that are caused by a fungus which grows on rye in cold, damp weather. Some changes, to be sure, could...
...Wet Evening. Heath may well turn out to have been right about the unhappy state of the British economy-quite a few experts, at least, agree with him -but it was clearly more than most voters wanted to hear. Beyond that, much of the electorate believed that Heath had brought on last winter's confrontation with the coal miners and feared that another dark winter might be the prospect if he were returned to 10 Downing Street. Another factor was Heath's personality, or lack of it. "Even his best oratory is about as exciting as a wet...
That day his Secret Service men acted as his seconds. Twice they hustled him out of the downpour and into dry quarters, laid him flat on his back, stripped the wet clothing away, gave him a shot of whisky, then dressed him again before carrying him back to the campaign wars. Despite the day's trying ordeal, Roosevelt's smile was triumphant. Three million people-and the national press-had seen what seemed to be a vigorous man in action...
...beach in Long Island's with-it Hamptons, one comely lady last week sported a shirt labeled simply VAN CLEEF & ARPELS-a Fifth Avenue gem dispensary-explaining that her husband had bought it in place of "other merchandise from there." Superstar Paul Newman's T advises: DRINK WET CEMENT . . . GET REALLY STONED. Indeed, with the likes of Joanne Woodward (wearing Husband Paul's face centered on her front), Yoko Ono, Carly Simon and an Alabama comedienne and L.A. talk-show regular who cottons to a replica of a fried egg on each well-poached breast, show...