Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wet grass and gray skies failed to keep 70,000 of her ecstatic home-town fans from Manhattan's Central Park when the reclusive Queen of Rock gave one of her rare concerts, and a free one at that. Her face scrubbed shiny and her hair short and curly, Carole King, 30, wore blue jeans like most of her audience and sang old favorites from Tapestry, the best-selling LP in rock his tory, as well as her new song Fantasy: "Our reality will be as good as never-never land...
...foreseeable future. Though demand for beef continues to grow, about 3% fewer cattle are now going to market than at this time last year. One reason is that spring cold and storms decimated some herds; a blizzard last month in Iowa wiped out 90,000 head. In addition, cold, wet weather slowed the fattening of many steers, who used up calories just to keep warm. This, too, has hurt, because many ranchers and feed-lot operators are now holding back the cattle until they put on more weight. But unless feed prices come down later this year, the expense...
...sake that recalls Melville's novel (which, by the way, Roth calls "five hundred pages of blubber"). The innuendoes of the game itself and the episodic richness of the narrative blot out attempts at conventional literary metaphor, as when some players visit a famous brothel peopled by wet-nurses, who sing lullabies for $2.50 a tune. These scenes don't work as "Literature", probably because they're so damn fun to read...
...lacrossemen outshot Dartmouth, 46-39; but opportunities didn't come easily. "It was a little wet out there. Guys like Hagerty had trouble working it one-on-one," Frisbie said...
...Most Individual award went to a wet suited fellow paddling a wide surfboard. Two girls with an umbrella sail on a raft of plastic bottles won the Most Ambitious With Least Potential award...