Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose the Viet Nam war in 1968, but the year was a series of national traumas. After Tet, Americans suffered in their living rooms as more than 5,000 U.S. Marines held out for weeks after being surrounded at Khe Sanh, a redoubt in the chilly, wet South Vietnamese highlands. The heroism under heavy fire reminded many of the French troops who surrendered in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. But the Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would...
...actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn to boast, would oxidize for 18 hours on a couple of pieces of wet popple. The speaker, newly emigrated to New Hampshire from the burbs of Westchester County, N.Y., was always careful to pronounce poplar "popple" to distinguish himself from flatlanders...
They took an eight-hour trip to Canton, caught the game, and drove back the same night in wet snow and on winding roads...
LA.P.D. Detective Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) smells trouble. And gets it. Thugs drill him with lead, he gets wet paint on his jacket, a bear trap snaps on his leg, and a window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before he has * brought the evil Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban) to justice, Drebin must do business with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl...
...acclimate his crew to the Loeb's high-tech set-up, Fratto devoted a 12-hour rehearsal just to work through the lighting and technical cues. During the rehearsal, called a "wet-tech," the cast walks through the entire show, stopping every few minutes to allow the lighting and technical crews to mark their cues...