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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died when UMass abruptly ended the careers of Harvard's five most talented players on last year's team, certainly another blossomed Saturday on wet and dreary Soldiers Field when Maggie Hart--straight from New Mexico's Rio Grande--lead the Crimson to new heights...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Straight from the Hart: Laxwomen Shock UMass | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Enter Yale's eleventh player. Saturday was one of those wet and grimy days that are awful anywhere, but in New Haven they're well...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Yale Tops Laxmen, 13-5, Ends 5-Year Losing Skein | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...moments just after his resignation speech: "Suddenly they all got up and they came around, just surrounded me-it was sort of a huddle, sort of a family embrace, saying nothing and saying everything. And then Tricia said, 'Daddy! You're wet. Your coat's wet through.' And I began to have a chill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nixon Tapes | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

THERE ARE A FEW SCENES in which the lines don't detract from the emotions the actors portray. As they flicker by. Thomas succeeds in delineating his pain. When he gets out of a shower, shivering and wet. he reaches out to an empty towel rack and he calls out "Mom, I need a towel" It is the fleeting moments like this that give the film its most potent and forceful moments. Unfortunately Schatzberg's attempt to create a collage of scenes in which Andrew and his father struggle with their loss is frequently uneven and ultimately unsatisfying...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: A Flow of Misguided Emotions | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...Carolina twisters formed the front line of a monster storm system that turned into a howlingly lethal nor'easter as it moved up the Atlantic Coast. On Thursday, the tenth day of spring, and on into Friday morning, heavy, wet snow, sometimes mixed with sleet and accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell from Virginia to Maine. Up to two feet of snow piled up in central New York State. Snowplows clearing runways at Boston's Logan Airport occasionally ground to a halt when their drivers were bunded in whiteouts of whirling flakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like the Hand of God | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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