Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the wet dreams of ROTC and its "friends" need not become our living nightmares. The Spartacus Youth League his initiated a united from, Enemies of ROTC, open to all opponents of the direct use of the university for military training...
...student, 19-year-old freshman Glenn Hayes from Bartlett. N.H. was apparently overwhelmed by the cold water and the weight of heavy, wet clothes when he attempted to swim to land. Hayes's body was found at 5:17 p.m. near Greenland, N.H. seven hours after the first boats were swamped...
Stow Acres featured unusually abbreviated distances between the tee and the pin on every hole yesterday. The recent deluge over the Boston area left the course wet enough to warrant this action by the club's management, who hoped to protect the ice areas from massive divots. "It makes the course a little easier," Nastala commented, adding that Stow Acres is fairly wide and obstacle-free as well...
...ranges far across the Pacific and even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high-pressure pattern is locked over Australia, while the South American coast is awash with heavy, humid air. Says Eugene Rasmusson, chief climate analyst...
...touted applications, balancing checking accounts and filing kitchen recipes, are better done with pencil and paper than on screen. Checkbooks can be carried in a pocket and filled out on the spot. For recipes, one good cookbook holds more data than eight floppy discs and can be thumbed with wet or sticky hands. Mastering data-base software can also be a taxing task, especially for the neophyte. Most data-base programs are marketed for business use; they come with powerful features and inch-thick manuals. Even with the simplest software, designing an efficient data base for an odd personal need...