Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wet day and the ball was slippery. Robertson said. In conditions like this it becomes a game for the forwards and the kickers. Adrian did an excellent job for us kicking...
Krislov was an enormously fat man with strands of dark, wet hair plastered back across his head to protect the bald spots. He spoke in a soft, high-pitched voice...
...game was played in a steady rain, and the wet conditions hampered the backs and caused many "knock-ons" because the ball was hard to hold. Knockons, which are accidental forward fumbles, resulted in a high number of scrums Saturday. Scrums determine possession of the ball...
Koetsu and Sotatsu reacted against the hard, linear, brushpoint drawing derived from the Chinese that dominated Japanese art in the early 17th century; instead they used the mokkotsu or "boneless" technique, dropping pigment into wet pigment, staining and mottling the shapes of flowers, twigs and thunder-god with infinitely subtle gradations of color, preparing the paper with washes of gold or silver dust or with a snowy, glistening mixture of eggshell white and flakes of mica. These hallmarks-which must in their time have seemed very "Japanese," in elaborate contrast to the austerities of Chinese brush technique-helped form...
...Cooperstown course was considerably harder than the Dartmouth course, where the qualifying rounds were held last week. Par is 72 at Cooperstown, while par at Dartmouth was 70. The cold, wet weather and strong winds probably also added to the high scores at the championship...