Word: wet
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...next show was clearly anticipated by the Chinese tourists. While the wives dutifully hung back, the men crowded along a low wooden fence. Beyond it was an artificial grove of ferns and waterfalls. Five women wearing wet sarongs appeared and began to pour water slowly over themselves. Occasionally a woman would let a sarong slip to show a glistening brown breast. The Chinese men craned forward; two guards blew whistles and shooed them back. The women splashed about in desultory fashion for another five minutes and then, upon some hidden cue, picked up their buckets and tossed water over...
George Bush steps from one wet rock up onto another. "It gets even better over here," he promises, poking a boot into the mud for balance. We're climbing on a line of small boulders that form a joint down the middle of a gully as if they'd been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black...
...Dogs. Few living beings are more excited by your return than large wet dogs back from a walk in the rain, and few take longer to dry. Their great penchant for exploring the bushes, yards and alleys of the neighborhood never flags, no matter how inclement the weather. Thanks to Livingstone, I have learned, indispensably, that the only way to get a recalcitrant dog out from under the bed is to ring the doorbell...
...have long had reason to believe that the Mars we see today is not the Mars that once was. That bleak, freeze-dried world, most planetary scientists agree, was once a warm, wet place, running with rivers and sloshing with seas or oceans. None of that water remains, of course, but the riverbeds and basins stamped in the surface offer powerful arguments that it was there in abundance...
...TEMPORARY DUNESCAPE OUTDOOR SUMMER PAVILION Architect firm SHoP's temporary "urban beach" in Queens, N.Y., became an inviting summer sensation. Made from 6,000 2-in. by 2-in. boards that rolled, twisted and slid about, it offered wet and dry places for visitors to bask, wade and escape the sun. It was an architectural drawing come to life...