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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ones that stayed alive got wet towels and wrapped them around their face or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them, "said Charlie Achieved an inmate hospitalized for smoke inhalation. "The ones that didn't died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prisoner Sets Cell Ablaze, Killing 27 in Miss. Jail | 11/9/1982 | See Source »

...Indochina have, according to a State Department estimate, killed at least 7,000 people. Typically, a plane sweeps in low over an isolated village, spraying a yellowish cloud or dropping bombs that burst in a shower of sticky beads. The rain, says the survivor of an April attack, feels "wet like rain and hot like chilies." The lethal ingredient of yellow rain is a poorly understood class of mycotoxins, or fungal poisons, known as trichothecenes, that apparently kill by rupturing blood vessels and inhibiting the blood's clotting ability. Within minutes of a yellow rain attack, villagers' eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Deadly Showers | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...addition, Brown fell just two yards short of stopping league-leading Penn three weeks ago. With only seconds left in the contest, quarterback Joe Fotter kept the ball and headed for the end zone. But he slipped on a patch of wet grass and the clock ran out on Penn...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Bruno Visits the Stadium Today | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

...boyfriend and you come alive. For the six months it lasts, you're like Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman, there's nothing you can't do. And when it ends, which it always does, you got nothing left. Suddenly, you're Werner Erhard's wet dream, you know...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Chic Lit | 10/22/1982 | See Source »

...wet handkerchiefs we had tired around our months had lone since dried out and stiffened. Our clothes racked of smoke and sweat, and out eyes were still red from the ash, but no one moved of spoke it word. We sat transfixed by the flames...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Trial by Fire | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

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