Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been brushing it wet,' the hairdresser said, lifting a strand of Maria's hair and letting it drop with distaste...
...dozens of summonses and warnings to tourists who tried to feed bears. Finding their stocks of ham-and-cheese sandwiches diminishing, the bears, which seem quicker to learn than the tourists in this respect, have pulled back into the wilderness. They are eating well there; because of a late, wet spring, it is a vintage year for berries...
...American family protect its children from drugs, revolution and general hell raising? It might try keeping them wet. At least no generation has ever found itself so much at home in the water. At the A.A.U. national outdoor swimming championships in Los Angeles last week, the tanned young amphibians splashed to an incredible 13 world records in 30 events. The new marks-ten for the boys and three for the girls-left the U.S. in possession of 14 of the 16 world records for men, and 13 of the 15 for women...
...Mosher, 77, founder of The Signal Companies, a conglomerate with sales that topped $1.5 billion last year; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1922, armed with $4,000 and an instruction pamphlet from the Bureau of Mines, Mosher constructed a small unit to extract natural gasoline from the "wet gas" found in the Signal Hill field near Los Angeles. Within five years, he was selling 34 million gallons annually to major oil companies. He went on to help found Flying Tiger airlines, bought interests in American President Lines, the aerospace industry's Garrett Corp., Mack Trucks and numerous...
...Wet-eyed, the rich voice faltering just a bit, Chet Huntley said farewell after 14 years on NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. "Be patient and have courage," he told his viewers, advising them that "there will be better and happier news some day-if we work at it." NBC provided for Huntley's ride into the sunset of his Montana resort by presenting him with a horse, and that offered David Brinkley a chance to close on a lighter note. "From now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, 'Aren't you Chet...