Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That nursing home was sineled out to be the worst in the state it is very reasonable for a new owner to have three months to get his feet wet," he said last week...
Most sinister of the secret-police operatives are the shadowy assassins and terrorists whose specialty is mokrie dela (wet affairs), from the so-called Department V, the KGB's Executive Action Department. I had naively assumed that political murders, kidnapings, sabotage targeted against Western civilian sectors had been pretty much abandoned by the U.S.S.R. by the mid-1950s, after the Stalin-Beria era. I was wrong. I met some of those operatives when I first lived in New York as a junior diplomat...
...Chief and President Todor Zhivkov, tried to reawaken Bulgarian cultural identity in the late 1970s. They considered her activity an "undue liberty." Ludmila became a political figure and a member of the Bulgarian Politburo. She died suddenly at the age of 38. I always wondered whether this was another "wet affair" carried out by the KGB's Bulgarian agents...
...left of the Jacob-Joseph lunette bulge like those of a bodhisattva in a "mad" Zen scroll; and how this is reinforced by colors nobody had seen since the end of the 16th century. They had begun to disappear almost from the moment Michelangelo began laying them on the wet plaster...
...Children's Hospital. "She spent more than three hours there, talking with the patients and their parents, frequently taking their hands or touching them," Halstead recalls. He even watched her give the Reagans' new Bouvier puppy, Lucky, a bath. "I ended up on the floor," Halstead says, "with a wet dog sitting on my chest and licking my face, and Mrs. Reagan breaking up with laughter...