Search Details

Word: wetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...larger lots of cattle range and pine tree forests. Around the trailer, which was resting on blocks, were a tractor, a car, a clothesline, some horses out in the field, some baby toys, a dog with mange, and a motor-cycle under a tarpaulin. The grass was long and wet, and once I stopped my car coupling black love bugs settled...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: In Spudnick's | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...storm was churning overhead. The fog would not lift tonight. I heard a noise in the brush by the stone staircase and there was Francois. His pants were wet to the knees and there was a crusty line of sand up the front of his jacket. He looked frightened, but his eyes shone. He pulled from his pocket a handful of round, smooth stones from the beach. "Bombs!" he said. "I went to the beach and got bombs Le Bon Dieu will hurl these at them and kill them, and then put them in a volcano...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...tanks would be used to save what little rain there was during the wet seasons...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Mali Mercy Mission Returns; Political Unrest Shortens Trip | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

...front-page editor for the Wall Street Journal (which is singled out in this week's Press section as one of the ten best newspapers in America). No skeptic about the reality of the energy crunch, Church had a lengthy debate with his conscience last week when wet snow started to fall on his Dix Hills, L.I., home, 40 miles from the Time & Life Building. "I've been trying not to drive to work any more," he says, "but the trains were unreliable, and after 15 phone calls I still couldn't get a cab. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 21, 1974 | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...tantrum of self-doubt, runs a guantlet of self-vivisection, and clutches at the coat lapels of her man, for self-definition. Fear of flying wins out every time. She should start a halfway house for feminists. Wait, no, she shouldn't. The book is too much of a wet towel, all wringing of hands and unchecked impulses...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Love and Loathing | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

Previous | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | Next