Word: wet
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...first provost Jerry R. Green was appointed by a still “wet behind the ears” Rudenstine. Green lasted only three years as provost...
MOSQUITOES Weird wet weather in late spring followed by tropical heat is blamed for record mosquito infestations as health officials brace for more cases of encephalitis, West Nile fever, E. coli and other skeeter-borne maladies this summer...
...than ever. Although pundits who were worrying about this sort of thing during the campaign tended to think a year was a safe minimum learning-to-fly-solo period - for what that's worth - but Bush has been in office five months now, and his feet are pretty wet. And it's not as if Cheney is the only wise old government hand left in this Administration...
...wasn't. He is at ease around professional women. Even Cheney, in his way, has evolved. In his close relationship with his lesbian daughter Mary, he has obviously dealt with a subject matter no 1950s father would have gone near. But just when you think Cheney might be all wet, look at what gets him excited: energy policy, defense restructuring, tax cuts. He likes areas where you can get things done. And the more feminine qualities of empathy and compromise are not so easy...
...Phones here have been known to be so bad that journalist colleagues use satellite phones to call across town. And they're at their worst when it rains. Many of the old copper lines simply can't cope with wet weather. When a two year long drought broke earlier this year, Kenyans thanked God. At long last they could have regular power and water again. They were less pleased when whole suburbs of Nairobi lost their phone lines for a month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days...