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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protesters at the Strand, a conservative seaside town 20 miles east of Cape Town, made "sure they had staked their claim properly. They walked around and wet their feet in God's water," said Anglican Archbishop and Harvard Overseer Desmond M. Tutu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South African Blacks Swim at White Beach | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once, and seeds are often planted when the soil is too wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ukraine Planting Some New Ideas | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson (2-1 overall, 0-1 Ivy) had not let the wet, heavy field spoil the debut of a new lineup and a new look--a direct, attacking game that defeated Hartford, 2-1, yesterday...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Blast Past Hartford, 2-1 | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...health fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSECT REPELLENTS: Bugging Ticks For Profits | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...expressing their feelings through the poetry of pop songs. Like Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Davies' film is laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint or underline the narrative. In the pub where everyone stops by "just to wet the baby's head," Eileen's pal Micky (Debi Jones) sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces. The musky wisp of Ella Fitzgerald's Taking a Chance on Love helps explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Ties | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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