Word: wetness
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...hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...then dropped through a snow bridge. With him went their only rope. Two boys set out for help; the third stayed at the scene. From the depths of the crevasse, young Jessett shouted that his arm was broken. The hours dragged by. "The snow is getting me all wet," Jessett called. "My fingers and toes are going numb. Hurry...
...water was shallow enough to wade. She kicked and shoved one of the doors open about 18 inches, and squeezed through. Then she reached in, pulled Roberta out. carried her through waist-deep water to the river bank, 15 feet away, and started walking. At 5:50, dripping wet and covered with mud, she reached Farmer Reuben Schupbach's dooryard. The farmer drove her to Hardtner at top speed, but Mrs. Munsell was too near her time for doctors to get her ready for the delivery room. At 6:40, still mud-spattered, she was delivered of a healthy...
Commenting that he had received mans complaints about students loitering in Harvard Square, "a little on the 'wet side," Lynch asserted that it was the "duty of the city fathers to guide these adolescents." "I'm sure good parents aren't spending hard-earned money to give them an education in drinking and carousing--they should all be domiciled," the Councillor said...
Seven hours and 50 minutes later, the first pair of landing lights broke through the wet darkness. One by one the ten Superforts touched down, with a chirp of tires, between the yellow field lights edging the runway. Their report: "Mission accomplished...