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Word: wetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is precisely how Ike went home emptyhanded; he had a slight cold and so never did get to wet a line. Crosby, a self-styled "nut" on light tackle, likes to use a 10-lb. line; last week he caught a fine striped marlin (they run from 115 lbs. to 190 lbs.) this way, though most of his catches are dolphin, roosterfish and other fighters in the 25-to 40-lb. range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Angler's Eden | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...refused to eat him. It now has a municipal slogan: "What a woman we have exported." Romilda's health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more exotic to the Italian eye-was turned over to a hired wet nurse. From a bed swarming with six grandchildren, the wet nurse last week reminisced: "Sophia was the ugliest child I ever saw in my life. She was so ugly that I am sure no one else would have wanted to give her milk. It was my milk that made Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Much Woman | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...that author Robert L. Joseph simply cannot settle on an approach to the problem of a child's death. The play's title comes from a fantasy the little girl and her father (Noel Willman) share about a happy place for skinny people, where it rains but nothing gets wet. This idea is not developed; nor is the sub-plot involving the hysterical mother (Norma Crane) who tries doctor after doctor long after all hope is lost, nor is the last-minute appeal to religion...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Isle of Children | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

Exhausted pickets arriving here after all-night bus trips were plagued and hindered by several hours of wet snow during...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Indifference, Disagreements Plague Student Delegations | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

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