Word: wetness
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When the 914 came out, there was already a host of smaller office copiers for sale. Evanston's American Photocopy Equipment Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. with its Verifax dominated the "wet copying'' field, which uses chemical developers; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. had its fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more...
...grand follies. Now she paints in somber tones the squalid miseries of peace. If there is no simple single reason why a nation had to starve and die. she makes clear that there was more to it than the fact that tubers in a wet climate make for a chancy crop...
...showdown shooting match takes place on a careening runaway train loaded with gold, bandits and George Peppard. When the whole thing cracks up at the end of the scene in a magnificent melange of flying bodies, hurtling timbers, exploding machinery and snapping chains, the audience's wet palms explode in a burst of spontaneous applause...
Coffins & Chases. At last, after losing his bride entirely in a series of aquatic misadventures, the bridegroom winds up wet and nearly naked at the desk of the hotel. The hotel manager, in sinister makeup, obviously represents Death. He has a key for the groom all right, the key he has been looking for all his life. The groom is told to lie down on a bench, and a coffin is built around him. When the manager and a lackey finish nailing it together, they carry it away, leaving the bridegroom lying dead on the bench, hands crossed...
...sliding all over the track. At race's end, Goldsmith and his Tempest were two laps-or five miles-ahead of the nearest rival, A. J. Foyt's Sting Ray. Goldsmith's winner's purse: $6,500, fair pay for averaging 145.161 m.p.h. in the wet...