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Word: wetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This wet spot on the side of the dam started spurting a little water and I asked my mother, 'Do you think we should notify the authorities?' She said: 'I don't think it could be too serious because nobody is sticking his finger in the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Teton: Eyewitness to Disaster | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...getting out of the chair for any reason except for "the maximum" of one food break per day and widely spaced bathroom breaks. Around Manhattan, est is known as the "no-pee therapy." Bladder control is crucial. At some sessions, trainees have been known to announce "I have just wet my pants and it doesn't matter," sitting down happily, if soggily, to tumultuous applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: est: 'There Is Nothing to Get' | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...rock-hard legs. The loping stride is strong. Only the white hair, cut short, betrayed his age. Suddenly Brando turned toward me and the illusion of youth vanished. That famous face with its jutting forehead and broken nose is a face that has seen and experienced everything. His wet shirt hugged a fat belly. "Poachers," Brando whispered, looking at two young Polynesian boys lying on the sand. They smiled nervously. Brando studied them hard for a moment and slowly moved away. "They're O.K.," he said. "They're trapping lobsters." The kids were lucky not to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Private World of Marlon Brando | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...wet, slick surface was a factor for much of the game as players from both teams watched the ball skip away from them and bounce over their heads. But Chinaglia adjusted quickly and so did Pele, New York's field general...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Pele, Chinaglia Lead Cosmos To 2-1 Win Over Minutemen | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

PUBLIC LAVORATORIES are generally dim, grimy places with wet cement floors and grimy white porcelain. Either that, or they are new and shiny with gleaming chrome faucets, row on row. In an effort to make such places interesting, since they were already necessary, grafitti were invented. There, in a cold, impersonal chrome-and-steel world is one man's mark upon the wall, a blow against the empire: JUAN LOVES MARIA, forever and ever...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Futurism and All That | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

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