Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first rains begin to fall, the plight of more than 160,000 Palestinian civilians in Lebanon's refugee camps is becoming more and more acute. TIME Correspondent David Jackson visited several of the camps, whose inhabitants were bracing themselves for the cold, wet months ahead. His report...
...find confirms that the region was once wet enough to support plants, animals and man, which scientists have long suspected. The Sahara originally dried out 2 million years ago, as the earth slipped into an Ice Age, but brief rainy periods occurred about 200,000, 60,000 and 10,000 years ago. Researchers who have ventured into south-central Egypt have found artifacts of human occupation. The U.S.Egyptian team that visited last September found the area so dry that cardboard boxes, cigarette papers and tracks left by the British army during World War II were perfectly preserved. Seeking signs...
...wrench doors from walls and bars from windows. "In that south cell block," said Policeman Dan Russell, "nearly all of them were dead." Some inmates tried to save themselves from the deadly smoke by stuffing rags beneath their cell doors. Others, said Prisoner Charlie Acevedo, "wrapped their faces with wet towels or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them. The ones that didn't died...
...official explanation was that rain and dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city. ("There's no allegation of impropriety here," insisted Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper Jr. "We've just got a lot of wet ballots.") The count began in earnest on Wednesday, the day, as wags point out, when the real politicking traditionally begins in Chicago. Before anyone could say Richard Daley, the city election board announced it was being hampered by repeated breakdowns of its new computer punch-card system...
...Devlin Connection (NBC, Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) is head of a huge culture complex in Los Angeles who does some investigating with his son on the side. As played by Robert Urich, Gavilan (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is a crime-busting oceanographer more at ease in a wet suit than a trench coat. And the Tuckers (Tim Matheson, Catherine Ricks) on Tucker's Witch (CBS, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.S.T), although carrying P.I. credentials, have to rely for investigative inspiration on Ms. Tucker's erratic supernatural skills. All of them are in serious need of some vocational guidance...