Word: wetness
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Considering the game-time conditions--56 degrees, wet, overcast and drizzling--the afternoon could have been a lot worse. In fact, for the 14,000 or so brave souls who sat through three hours of rain and cold at Soldiers Field Saturday, the reward was an interesting football game and a 37-14 Harvard victory over Boston University...
Trailing 7-0, the Crimson turned things around almost immediately with a 63-yard march of its own, and it was obvious that the wet field was not affecting the offensive capabilities of either team. Defensively, expectations were for a long afternoon of chasing people...
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...extraordinary test of devotion. No sooner had the saffron-robed speaker begun preaching from his brocade throne than a freezing downpour began, soaking the congregation of 18,000. Everyone sat silently in the rain for four hours, while the air hung heavy with the smell of incense and wet earth. "What faith they must have!" an Indian army officer marveled. "I couldn't sit there for ten minutes...
...movie is lavishly lit and wonderful to look at, a sumptuous blend of realistic sets slightly scaled down to kid size (wet streets, neon signs, shabby rooming houses and dingy soup kitchens) and refracted whimsy. At Fat Sam's, the "house special" is soda pop, and the custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone...