Word: wet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vehicle arrives complete with two TVs, two VCRs, a stocked wet bar (no fruit juice), snacks, interior mood lighting and a chauffeur named Daniel. Upon request, the company also supplies balloons and a magical red carpet. Only available on weekends, the stretch Navigator is already booked for the upcoming prom season. Keep in mind: To bring this phenomenon of the automobile industry up to Boston for the night costs $300 an hour and the meter starts running when the white-gloved chauffeur leaves New York City and stops the moment he returns. To say its worth it, well, that would...
...flavor is either unconstitutional or unfair to the President. "Most of us look at it as raw political cover," said Republican Larry Craig of Idaho, who questioned the motives of Republicans and Democrats who support censure. "It's nothing more than a slap on the wrist with a wet noodle." Those who would block censure could filibuster the measure, raising the number of votes needed from a simple majority...
...campus' newest political review is a starched-shirt gov jock's wet dream. The Current does a remarkable job cloning Newsweek, if only by ripping off its entire design scheme. Catering to your everyday baby milquetoast politico, this publication attempts to make politics sexy with full-color photos and glossy paper-if by "sexy" you mean "sterile and boring." We do appreciate the glossy paper, though...
...carrier, something it usually didn't do even during the most tension-fraught days of the cold war. "It's a dirty little secret," a Navy commander daringly argued in Proceedings, an independent Navy journal. "U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines no more support the carrier battle group commander than wet roads support traffic safety...
...smart." Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer whose sentences can glow like rare blooms, as when she reports that the air above an orchid swamp's sinkholes "has the slack, drapey weight of wet velvet...