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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never stopped trying. In Princeton, N.J., last week Municipal Court Judge Russell Annich Jr. hit two Princeton University students with 30-day jail sentences and $500 fines for serving alcohol to minors at an initiation bacchanal last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Dryout | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this dark, wet comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Clint, Brits And Kids at Cannes | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Merriner echoes Araoz's complaint. "I've been as cold here as I've ever been in my whole life," he says. "It's the wet cold that gets...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Adjusting to College in the Lower 48 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...winters are worse in Cambridge," says Kenai resident Philip Araoz '90 of Quincy House. "It's so wet in Cambridge...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Adjusting to College in the Lower 48 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Sassy has tackled such topics as losing one's virginity ("If you don't feel like you can talk to your partner, then it's probably time to reconsider"), how to kiss (not too wet or too wide, and never with flavored lip-gloss) and the "Truth About Boys' Bodies" ("the average amount of semen per ejaculation is one-quarter of an ounce"). Sandwiched between the glossy but no-nonsense fashion pages and gushing paeans to the latest teen idols is at least one hard-hitting article, like the story of a teen whose best friend died of AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From Feminists to Teenyboppers | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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