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...Each of us took a handful of the cold pozol and put it in our bowls, adding water and stirring it with the brown water. If it was not too many days old, it was not too sour. The Indians carefully cleaned out their bowls, picking up the last wet crumbs with a swish of their dark fingers around the inside of the bowls...

Author: By Jack R. Stauder, | Title: Zinacantan, Mexico | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...burned part cannot be dipped in water, apply loose, wet, cold dressings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold for Burns | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made some speeches for the Anti-Saloon League, "and every county I spoke in went wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preacher on Park Avenue | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...cold, wet spring of 1945, the Allied Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower crossed the Rhine and began the great sweep across the German plain toward juncture with Soviet armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HOW BERLIN GOT BEHIND THE CURTAIN | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...water level was below the wing of the plane he said, and "I didn't even get my feet wet." Thorndike is in charge of all surgery for Harvard students, faculty, and staff, and also serves as physician for the College's athletic teams...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: College Students, Surgery Chief Survive Airplane Crash at Logan | 9/25/1961 | See Source »

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