Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best "Vietnam" film we have. The Americans who fought in Vietnam--more than any other war-quickly realized they were not fighting to win but to stay alive. Battle was no "John Wayne wet-dream," as Michael Herr called it in his Vietnam account, Dispatches. Even Fuller's narrator comments that the army doesn't award medals for protecting civilians but for killing Germans; in Vietnam, a high bodycount signalled victory. It is this attitude to survival that enables The Big Red One to bridge the gap between America's most glorious and most dishonorable wars...
...others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom and then, glug, glug, glug, here she comes, surging to the surface where she sits, muddy and wet but otherwise unharmed...
Though they differed slightly in their rhetoric, the two leaders announced their "basic agreement on all points" following the two-day official talks that wrapped up the state visit. As Giscard flew off into the low, wet overcast, Schmidt's aides pronounced themselves satisfied that the Chancellor had pleased "Cher Valéry" without unduly upsetting Washington or London-no mean task in these delicate times for the Atlantic Alliance...
...said the people were sick. The people are sick and tired -of Government. And people want to be proud again. They do not like our country being pushed around. I think they want to believe that the Government believes in them. That they do not have to be wet-nursed by the Government. And they want Government off their backs. And I know-I've got a farm. I farmed at a time when I never heard from the Government. Now you get a 19-page questionnaire-same farm, but every year you're expected to answer...
...wet Sunday in September 1974, a couple of dozen Soviet painters carried their canvases into a patch of wasteland in Cheremushki, an outlying district of Moscow, and began to set them up on makeshift stands. A small crowd of onlookers gathered, and so, to one side, did a platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers...