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Word: wet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve, who had started as a youngster picking up wet towels and sweaty uniforms from the Colts' dressing room floor, was left only 6% of the Rams' stock in his father's will, but he also got the power to run the day-to-day operations of the club. Young Steve promptly demoted General Manager Don Klosterman, considered by many experts to be one of the league's shrewdest executives, and put himself in charge of player personnel, picking draft choices and making trades. Widow Georgia, however, inherited 70% of the stock, and, determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl: A Family Affair | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince Emmanuel's Land | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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