Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been working in practice, really hard," agreed classmate Tom Morrison, "and it feels good to go out there and score a basket and get your feet wet...
...putter a few weeks back in his alltime display of rapture over an eight-footer, not to win the grand slam, not even to clinch a 20th major championship, but to publicize a condominium development in Arizona at a made-for-TV golf tournament. Ben Hogan would never have wet his pants over such a glory, but there are levels of ego in this. When Bjorn Borg slipped merely to second, ahead of everyone but John McEnroe, Borg had to go. Eleven years removed from his No. 1 rating, Ilie Nastase pursues the tournament allures as profanely as ever...
...mustachioed Bass, 52, who left the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 to found the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University, is a kind of underwater Indiana Jones, a wet-suit archaeologist who searches out clues to the past on the ocean bottom. The uncovering of the wreck may prove a boon to the nascent but growing field of nautical archaeology, of which Bass is a founding father. Since 1960, Bass has not only adapted the traditional archaeological surveying techniques to the seabed but also contributed to key technological advances, like an underwater "telephone booth" to help divers...
Lumet directs Gilly's already enervated movements with a wet sock. Not only is Gilly unable to capture much interest, as he races around searching for Garbo, but Lumet provides a leaden pace, that never seems to pick up, even as Gilly comes close to meeting the great film star. In fact, it is only the movie's title that assures us that Gilly will indeed find Garbo...
...been increasing by 5% a year. As a result, Great Whites seem to be responding to boom times in their food supply by producing larger litters more rapidly. And though Great Whites normally avoid the risk of attacking humans, some scientists suspect that the fish may mistake humans in wet suits for seals. Says McCosker: "Sharks are dumber than goldfish...