Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some former Love Canal residents were outraged. "The EPA is as dependable as a wet noodle," said Robert Kott, who moved his wife and five children away from their home near the canal two years ago. Indeed, some members of an independent panel of experts that was asked by the EPA to analyze the data felt that the material made available to them was "of very poor scientific quality." Says Member Steven Aust, who is chairman of the Michigan toxic substance control commission: "I do not see how anyone could conclude with much assurance that the area was habitable...
...alert, handsome woman in a red-orange dress sits up in bed as a friend ceremoniously combs her wet black hair. The cluster bomb that hit her home killed her 22-year-old daughter and injured the legs of her 16-year-old son. She was born in 1936; she knows all about war. She says she is comfortable in the Hotel Triomphe...
...fought at Belleau Wood in World War I and the Bulge in World War II. And always there was talk of the weather, of drought and flood and tornado and sun. Many on this graduation day had left their tractors and corn planters bogged down in fields too wet to work-one more worry in the struggle to survive under God's laws...
...take the narrow view that the test is all there is, and to walk into the test without any preparation (since to study the book without ever actually typing anything into the computer is like trying to swim without getting wet), is making a farce of the entire program and cheating the test-taker out of an educational experience...
Rain has cancelled the softball game against Massasoit. The cold and wet has driven most of the team's players back into their rooms, but Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic-the Crimson's best pitcher and hitter-remains at the ITT to work on the Nautilus...