Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real thing. Ohio's Governor Richard Celeste, surveying his once lush farm fields, sadly compares them to "sand dunes." In the South, where all outdoor watering has been banned, residents are using "gray water" -- what is left after bathing and showering -- to sprinkle plants and flowers. Along the normally wet Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon, there is not enough water to irrigate all the fruit orchards...
...geometry. "Strikeouts are boring. They're fascist," Crash tells Nuke. "Throw some ground balls; it's more democratic." With professors like Crash and Annie, Nuke can't miss vaulting to the bigs. Then maybe the grownups can get together and discuss what Crash believes in: "long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last for three days...
...world's most advanced technologies. "You'd offer a physics student a personal linear accelerator or a ride on a train going the speed of light," he told a group of educators in 1986. "You'd take a biochemistry student and let him experiment in a $5 million DNA wet lab. You'd send a student of 17th century history back to the time of Louis XIV. Next year we will introduce a breakthrough computer ten to 20 times more powerful than what we have today...
...professor tells us whether he needs mostly computer facilities or a wet lab," Taft says. "We have a varied department, and the professors have very different needs which are expressed when they join the faculty...
...Pyle said, 'It's awful.' He looked at the wet on his shoes and said in a sick voice, 'What's that...