Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Harvard women's swimming team clinched its first-ever Ivy League championship with a 93-47 victory over Penn at Blodgett Pool. The squad celebrated by throwing Coach Maura Costin and others into the water, and followed this wet ritual by dancing and partying...
...were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away on a winged keel three years ago and relocated it in a western backwater near Perth, only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed. Only Conner cried...
Then one day you see an ad on TV announcing that "the wet look is back" and something inside you snaps. You realize that things have changed forever. You're an outcast. No one cares that the Yeti's habitat is being encroached upon. No one cares that the social organization of the Burmese orchid monkey exactly duplicates that of professional football referees. Curiosity is dead...
...dockside war dance by Maori tribesmen, New Zealand got lucky in the third race. Stars & Stripes got off to a lead of 21 seconds, but a halyard shackle popped loose as the boat rounded the second mark, sending its spinnaker flapping into the water. Although his crew cleared the wet sail and hoisted a new sheet in 70 seconds, Conner fell behind and was forced into an exhausting two-hour tacking match in which he came about 131 times to Dickson's 128. Stars & Stripes narrowed the gap to 15 seconds at one point, but New Zealand held on, crossing...
Although its name is Spanish for "Big River," the Rio Grande is often more like a stream as it winds for 1,248 miles along the Texas-Mexico border. Each month thousands of Mexicans slip into the U.S. simply by wading across the river, often without getting their knees wet...