Word: wetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Water pressure dropped ominously as sweltering city dwellers illegally opened fire hydrants to wet themselves down. Utility companies set power-output records in Milwaukee, Boston, New York and other cities, and air-conditioner salesmen could scarcely keep up with demand. Newspaper-headline writers warmed to the occasion. The New York Daily News ran, AT 102°, WE'RE A BAKED APPLE, and the Boston Globe, ON THE 5TH DAY OF SIMMER...
...against the invoice; the bullae, in effect, were the first bills of lading. The third stage, which followed closely, began when merchants realized that cargoes could be checked without breaking open the bullae if each of the tokens to be enclosed in the ball was first impressed on the wet clay surface. That would leave a record on the outside of the envelope as well as inside...
Suddenly, high up on Usher Top Mountain, hundreds of feet above the river, everything in the darkened forest turned silent. Chapman pulled his Smith & Wesson .38-cal. Chiefs Special from his shoulder holster. At 2:10 a.m. Sandy led him to a pile of wet leaves and began wagging her tail. Beneath the foliage, Ray was lying on his back with his arms straight out, as though he had been crucified...
...physical fitness is upon us like a wet spaniel, bigger than talking to plants, more numbing in the fervor of its adherents than encounter-group therapy. This is a startling development for the nation that invented the electric golf cart, the pushbutton car window and the drive-in mortuary, but it is happening...
...1930s Wright embraced the interracial promise of the Communist Party. With "eyes as round and open and wet as morning-glories," he made the first real emotional commitment of his life. But it was not, as they say, a two-way street. The party was interested in him only insofar as it could use him. He was promptly elected executive secretary of his unit because the faction supporting him figured that the opposition would not dare vote against a bona fide Negro...