Word: wetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little over a year ago today a new Administration, brimming with confidence and idealism first faced its Crimson foes on the gridrion. Wet behind the ears, Box Jox ran smiling in to the field. They were smashed...
...first half, the Terriers' ball handling was even sloppier than the weather. Quarterback Ray Roach couldn't get the team moving, or keep his footing, or hang onto the wet ball. As a result, the Terriers made the Crimson's job a lot easier by stifling their own drives and offensive maneuvers...
Lacking sufficient courage to brave the wet turf underfoot, or to battle a Crime team undefeated in 299 consecutive games, the Jox copped...
...Next went the stuffed furniture, ruined by mildew. People were still trying to save their small appliances after they had scrapped televisions, washers, refrigerators. When they realized they couldn't fix the toasters and blenders either, they too went out onto the street. Then they stripped the wet plaster and finally the flooring, till only the shell remained...
...convention began, a curious air of inevitability hung over Miami Beach like the hot, wet clouds that usually greeted delegates when they ventured outside the air conditioning. McGovern's astute young organization, working through the spring, had sent him to Miami with an apparently overwhelming delegate total, tantalizingly close to the 1,509 needed for nomination. Everyone knew that the nomination would be decided not in the formal balloting on Wednesday night but on Monday, when the convention assembled to vote on the crucial issue of delegate credentials...