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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Standing outside all day, my feet get wet and very cold," Frank Procopio said. He is the co-owner, with Jack Herzog, of a new newsstand at 1210 Massachusetts Avenue. They sell bubble gum, cigarettes, and the New York Times-and, Procopio said, they face many problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Dealer in the Square | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...Wet. Robert Maples, 22, a machine-gunner in the platoon and now a warehouse worker in Freehold, N.J., swore that Calley had asked him to use his machine gun on the Vietnamese. Maples said that he had refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: My Lai: The Case Against Calley | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...also acknowledged that he had not seen victims being struck by bullets. However, Maples observed, "the people that was in there did not come out." Charles Hall, an assistant gunner, remembered the victims with "blood coming out of all parts of their bodies. It was very red and very wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: My Lai: The Case Against Calley | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

SOON after eight on most mornings, an elderly man steps out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house and walks with a faltering gait to an office building on Sixth. Few passers-by give him a second glance; in his somber suit, topped by a plastic raincoat on wet days, he seems to be just another Manhattanite going to work. The appearance is misleading. He is Daniel K. Ludwig, the quiet billionaire who has built a shipping, real estate and financial empire that girdles the globe. At 73, Ludwig is worth between $2 billion and $3 billion, which makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Twilight of a Tycoon | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where the heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Odor Plagues Lamont | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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