Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rugby player: If the field's wet, the field hockey and soccer games are called off and the fans go home disappointed. If the field's wet, the rugby game takes place as scheduled and the fans are delighted. If rugby wasn't called rugby it would be called mud. These guys don't let a little sloppy earth stand in the way of their...
...wet and muddy field, Harvard struck twice early and looked to have put the game out of reach. Just six minutes into the contest, back Andy Dale sent a beautiful cross into the Columbia goal area, where David Kramer tapped it past diving Lion keeper Jeff Micheli...
...certain look of innocence. "I wasn't marking the ball," Joe insisted, though a few blemished ones had arrived irregularly at the plate. "Like a lot of knuckle-ball pitchers, I occasionally file my nails after I warm up, and even between innings. Sometimes the emery board gets wet, so I have to go to the sandpaper." His brother believed...
...kilns are mounded, cavelike structures of concrete, lighted by air holes in the curved roofs. There is a door at either end, and Ray backed his truck in one. Inside the kiln, soot coated the walls. It was damp and smelled of wet chimney. Ray worked fast, standing on the truck bed, stacking his load on a base left by another woodcutter, filling the kiln up to the ceiling 5 ft. above his head. His safety depends on how well the previous woodcutter stacked his load. Once, warned by a slight noise, he had just enough time to jump away...
...James Agee and Dorothy Parker were friends of Perelman's, but readers would never know it from his keyhole view of the beach house the two shared: "They both exist in a fog of crapulous laundry, stale cigarette smoke, and dirty dishes, sans furniture or cleanliness; one suspects they wet their beds...