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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That was Steve's game," recalls the Maine coach, who ordered the young baliboy to make sure his squad got a dry football on every offensive down and to make sure the visiting URI squad got a wet...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The class of his class | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

Thirteen years since his son stood on the sidelines as the sneaky bellboy, Walter Abbott will sit in the Stadium's stands this weekend us Steven Warren Abbott closes out a football career that began well before he dished out wet pigskins to frightening opponents...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The class of his class | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

Minutes after dawn on a chilly morning, high in the Rocky Mountains, Jeff Madison tethers his horse in a stand of aspen trees and moves slowly in a crouch past a beaver lodge, through grass still wet with dew. Below in a meadow at the edge of the forest, some 50 elk are feeding. Quietly, so as not to spook the animals, Madison sets up his 60-power spotting scope on a tripod and begins to count the elk, classifying them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Colorado: Herds and Hostility | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...special effects are critical in establishing the play's message and mood. The spartan, if somewhat bizarre, backdrop of black plastic effectively sets the tone, while the often colorful costumes relieve the heavily symbolic drama. Some of the subtler special effects, however, detract from the atmosphere: the use of wet wine glasses as musical instruments, for example, is both superfluous and affected...

Author: By David H. Pollock, | Title: Mid-Life Crisis | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

Residents of Leverett B-42, trying to burn a wet log in their fireplace without a grill or screen, sent smoke into the hallway that set off all the fire alarms in the entry, Harvard Police said yesterday...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: Police Blotter | 10/6/1984 | See Source »

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