Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first half saw two Hartwick scores swim past Crimson goalie Phil Coogan. The wet field and a slipping fullback allowed for a breakaway goal, and a sliding Coogan watched the second goal splash into...
...went as a Harvard fan to endure a few cold, wet and miserable hours at the Stadium Saturday afternoon, the least you deserved was the Crimson's surprising tie with the nation's second-ranked Division I-AA team, Holy Cross...
Water seeped into the papers while they were stashed away by the engineer-spy, so the pages are wet and stuck together. A team of Polish technicians works through the night to clean them up. The next day, 20 KGB agents who fly in from Moscow to inspect the documents at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw cannot contain their excitement: the papers provide details of a U.S. research-and-development project to protect the Minuteman arsenal from destruction by a Soviet nuclear strike. KGB Chief (now Soviet President) Yuri Andropov personally signs a letter of commendation to the Polish officials...
...machines have come a long way in speed and accuracy since the days when suspects were asked to blow into a glass vial for a wet chemical test. The latest version of Smith & Wesson's $4,300 Breathalyzer measures the level of alcohol in a suspect's blood by projecting an infrared beam through a sample of breath blown into the machine. Massachusetts State Police, whose arrests for drunken driving in the past three months have increased 48% over last year, bought 35 of the new Breathalyzers in August...
During the more than two hours of trauma and suffering, spiked by the occasional one-liner, that momentum fortunately grows. By Act III even the wet-washcloth quality of the pauses can't distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this...