Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Chief Wahoo McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins went back to punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs...
...guides began icing up, I kept stopping to smoke, and even the wet line started catching little ice crystals. The only good thing about the situation was the clarity of the day and the incredible landscape...
...there weren't any Geordie Thomson's in my fishing bag, so collecting some leaders, streamers, nymphs and anything else I could fish wet, I figured to head for New Hampshire, specifically the Ammonoosic River, up north in the White Mountains, near the little town of Bethlehem...
...getting colder, I went back to the house for breakfast and then went into town for groceries and some more gear (mostly in the way of streamers--artificial flies made to resemble minnows in the water and fished "wet", or under water--as opposed to being fished "dry", or on the surface of the water). I talked tackle to the clerk in the hardware store, bought what he recommended. One of the people with me, using spinning tackle, got sold something called a Super-Duper, but he was lucky enough to lose it on his third or fourth cast...
...last been recognized as a plague. From 1960 to 1970, per capita consumption of alcohol in the U.S. increased 26%-to the equivalent of 2.6 gal. of straight alcohol per adult per year. It is now at an alltime high, probably surpassing the levels during such notoriously wet eras as the pre-Civil War and pre-Prohibition years. Moreover, according to the NIAAA, about one in ten of the 95 million Americans who drink is now either a full-fledged alcoholic or at least a problem drinker (defined by NIAAA as one who drinks enough to cause trouble for himself...