Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turner's harp is composed of 59 ordinary goblets filled with water. They range in size from bulbous brandy snifters to delicate cordial glasses. He creates sound by rubbing his wet fingers around their rims to create a vibration...
...painter-were buffeted by bruising ocean tides. Rignola and Farriel would later tell the authorities that Granberg, 6 ft. 4 in. and 275 lbs., offered to change places with Rignola, who was perched precariously in the middle. As Granberg stood up, his friends said, his foot slipped on the wet seat, and he vanished overboard...
...wet spring breeds disease...
...highway agency has lost 30% of ts employees and sustained a 25% budget cut under Reagan. For two years, NHTSA did little about repeated complaints that the brakes on more than 1 million X-cars made by General Motors tended to lock, especially on wet roads, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people in skidding accidents. But now NHTSA has suddenly reversed course. It ordered the recall of 240,000 X-cars last spring, and this month it filed a lawsuit against GM demanding the recall of 1.1 million 1980 X-cars and charging that GM had lied...
...this year's rash of cases? One likely culprit is the weather, says Dr. Jack Poland of the Centers for Disease Control's regional office in Fort Collins, Colo. Because of a particularly cool and wet spring, plague-carrying squirrels, prairie dogs and other rodents proliferated. So did the fleas that spread the disease to wild animals and eventually to humans...