Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the bandstand, over by a string of boxcars parked on a siding, Bill Cameron, 17, of Orange, Vt., and his father Enoch, 71, are standing back-to-back in the wet grass, practicing their competition tunes. The two Koehler girls from Westfield, Mass., ten-year-old Gretchen and seven-year-old Rebecca, skitter about giggling until their mother Shirley tells them to get down to business and start practicing. They are astonishingly good. Shirley, who is a nurse, says that neither she nor her husband Jim, a welding engineer, is at all musical. The girls started playing the violin...
...hang around the wet-haired female denizens of Blodgett Pool--the Harvard women's swim team--long enough, you might hear them saying unusual things like, "Today we swam to New York City!" or, "Today we swam all the way to Reno, Nevada!" Don't be too perturbed; the women are just discussing their novel fund-raising approach for the upcoming winter trip to California. The 30-member squad has decided to collectively swim 3000 miles over the next four weeks--approximately the distance between Boston and Los Angeles. According to co-captain MAUREEN GILDEA, this breaks down to about...
That's it, sports fans. You can thank the weather. The women's soccer team was scheduled to play UMass yesterday, but the field in Amherst was so wet that UMass officials decided it would be dangerous to play. The game will be played November 10, unless the teams meet in the upcoming EAW tournament...
Weather didn't seem to affect the Harvard team as it started off quickly, keeping the ball in the Rhode Island end for most of the game. Martin said, "I really enjoy the wet and mud. It's a lot more fun falling in the slush than on hard grass...
...only other interesting note of the game, in an otherwise cold and wet contest, was that the stickwomen did not wear their traditional kilts. Instead, the team wore shorts. "It's way too cold for dresses on a day like today," one player said yesterday...