Word: wet
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...coach with Gatorade after a huge victory, but few coaches weigh under 125 pounds and are flung with ease into the icy depths of Lake Quinsigamond. But coxswains won’t complain about that. Their job is endlessly stressful and rife, perhaps, with misplaced blame, but a sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only gold medal-winning coxswains are rewarded with ceremonious flops into the waters of the race course. The tradition of collegiate rowing calls for it: after winning a championship race, oarsmen team up to victoriously fling their coxswain...
...vilification of fiends like Saddam and Chemical Ali. In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon explains that the poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. But besides this and one sardonic, flippant reference to U.N. resolutions in "A Prism; Wet With Wars" - the collection's puffed-up opener, which is swollen with images of "imminent wreckage" - there is no overt reference to politics and no bitter outcry against George W. Bush or Bush's father (five of the poems were written from 1989 to 1991). There is no assault...
...heat, tigers and other animals leave their deep-jungle haunts and venture out in search of water, giving you abundant subjects for your camera. But be warned: you will have the stifling temperatures to contend with. Most wildlife parks close in June or July for the wet season, and remain shut until October or November...
...Josh came out of the river sopping wet and pulled the thing out of his crotch and said--he was talking to himself--he said, "What do you do?" "Oh, I'm an actor." [Everybody laughs...
...still a fair amount of work to do, but there’s been an awful lot of work done in the past few weeks,” Gibson said. Workers have already begun to install cardio equipment and line the stairwells with “wet paint” signs. Other recreational facilities that had opened temporarily during the renovation—such as in the Gordon Track and the Wigglesworth Hall basement—have been shut down in anticipation of the MAC’s reopening. “The space at Wigg was very popular...