Word: wetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to make a loud roaring sound, almost like a siren. By fifth gear, I could tell the only thing making us go slower was the wind resistance of the egg trays. When I tried to shift the eggs from one hand to another, I felt my hand go wet with goo. Again, in the calm state of shock at top speed, I began to observe what was happening. The eggs were bounding out both left and right. First the vibrations would crack the shell, then the wind would suck the omelet out. As we zinged past the telephone poles...
...none was more pitiful than Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school...
While Healey did not soak the rich, he did get them a little wet. The basic corporate tax rate was raised from 50% to 52%, the basic income tax from 30% to 33%, with the burden falling heaviest on the biggest earners. Thus, a $25,000-a-year earner who had been paying roughly $8,000 a year in taxes will now pay about $500 more. Those earning $7,200 and under will pay marginally less. There will be heavier levies on luxuries such as liquor (48? more for a 26-oz. bottle of gin, to $6.24), cigarettes (12? more...
...Bloom with careful hand recomposed his wet shirt. O Lord, that little limping devil. Begins to feel cold and clammy. After effect not pleasant. Still you have to get rid of it someway. They don't care. Complimented perhaps...
...seems to be relatively free from the sort of petty personal corruption which Nixon has apparently engaged in. And Ford does not take as contemptuous an approach to Congress as his boss in the White House, even though in his younger days he once described Congress as a "weak, wet noodle." But the very absence of serious personal objections to Ford makes it especially important to oppose his politics. All the more so now that media coverage of opposition to Nixon is focusing nearly exclusively on the ways Nixon's men carried out their goals--burglaries, wiretappings, that sort...