Word: wet
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...name is Katrina. She treated David pretty badly this summer. After her arrival, the water rose to just underneath his chin when he stood inside his house. Fountain evacuated to the Convention Center. When he returned to his home, he slept on the roof rather than inside his wet house. While others in Fountain’s neighborhood have tried to reconstruct their one-level homes or have opted to simply start new lives in new cities, Fountain has chosen to cope with Hurricane Katrina the way Petruccio deals with his Kate in “The Taming...
...close relation to Holy Blood, Holy Grail became increasingly obvious. The name of Brown's character Teabing is an anagram of the last name of Michael Baigent, one of the authors of Grail. A sixth step to a best seller? Frits Sollewijn Gelpke Vorstenbosch, the Netherlands All Wet In "around the corner" [march 20], your forum of thinkers who discussed the trends of the future, Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andrés Martinez said he takes longer showers because the shower is the last place he can think and the one place he isn't hounded...
...opened between 410 million and 356 million years ago during the Devonian period, known as the Age of Fishes. Early in the Devonian, the continents were mostly masses of bare rock with just a fringe of plants "no taller than your ankle," as Daeschler puts it, growing along the wet margins of rivers and streams. By the late Devonian, however, thick vegetation had taken hold in marshes, fens and floodplains, and mosses, ferns and trees had coalesced into the world's first forests...
...systematic methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied...
...their first tournament of the spring season in the northeast, Harvard’s men’s golf team got a wet reception. Heavy downpours on the course at Yale forced the cancellation of Saturday’s portion of the two-round Yale Spring Opener, and the Crimson finished 16th out of 20 teams in the abbreviated tournament. Fifty-four of the events’ 115 players had completed rounds on Saturday before the round was called, but no Harvard golfers had finished. As a result, the tournament rested on just yesterday’s round of play...