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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a hardy few survive two-hour delays, so when Seaver resumed his warmups, the atmosphere had changed. Those of us who stood there with our faces pressed hard against the now-wet chain link fence were silent...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Thirty-Nine and Still Stalking the Perfect Delivery | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...Thompson's accusations as an act of defense rather than malice. Two years after his breakup with Linda, Thompson is still bitter: on this song, he lets his guitar gently weep in a way that is fat above anything George Harrison could envison in his wildest, rock-and-roli wet dreams...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...trading partners are in the same boat. If one partner shoots a hole in the bottom of the boat, does it make sense for the other partner to shoot another hole in the boat? There are those who say yes and call it getting tough. I call it getting wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy More Foreign Goods | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...author's dour Dutch Calvinist upbringing with his development as a comic writer. To borrow a De Vriesian analogy, such treatment is like putting the reader into a diving bell and taking him down 3 ft. His latest novel counters that effect by granting his fans a chance to wet their feet once again in the forbidding shallows of sex, money and social class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...William," he would say, "you're a bright a enough little kid. "You've got lots of charm and poise, and you're well regarded as a leader around here. You hold your liquor fairly well and haven't wet your pants during school hours all week. So what's this crappola about the baseball statistics...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Take Me Cut to the Numbers Game | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

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