Word: wet
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...aerobics. Now that you've achieved balance and strength, start working on your cardiovascular system. Walk, bike, swim--do what you enjoy most. Don't go out in wet weather if you're prone to slipping. Avoid risky sports like downhill skiing, but choose an exercise you like enough to stick with. --By Sora Song
...Without a set schedule, I found it very hard to make myself clean bathrooms,” says Levin-Gesundheit, a former wet worker—one who cleans bathrooms—who worked only two days before looking for another job that, as he says, wouldn’t require him to take a shower afterward. Despite considering custodial work to be “an important skill” and wanting to learn, Levin-Gesundheit wound up behind a library desk...
...really is the most important step, I think—it makes everything shine.” When she splashes water down the sides of the shower and onto the floor, she shrugs it off casually and remarks, “We’re called wet workers for a reason...
...Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States and designed patriotic murals at the Capitol—using a “real fresco” technique “in which paint is applied to [a] wet surface.” What relevance does “real fresco” have to this book? After seven pages on Brumidi, Morrow unconvincingly concludes: “Politics and government by the same process offered the wet fresh surface to which Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon brought versions...
...legs were just dead at the beginning of the game and the ground was wet and muddy,” Chira said. “Dartmouth outplayed us in the first half. Going down by that many goals in that kind of weather can be tough. But in the half time huddle, we looked at each other and got focused. We knew that we wanted it, and had been fighting too hard to lose...