Word: wetness
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Through the cold, wet darkness, the people hurried homeward silently, drawing threadbare coats tightly around hunched shoulders. Policemen paced beneath feeble street lights, stamping their feet. A sharp wind whispered through shattered walls and broken towers, bringing shivers to everyone in Nürnberg. This was a night which had been longed for by millions in death cells, in all of Europe's fearful prisons and pens. But now, in the piercing wind, victors and vanquished alike felt the chilling doubts that invariably attend man's deliberate killing in the name of justice...
There was indeed humble English earthiness in the 19th Century's John Constable, who spent most of his life in the country, kept his eyes fixed on the beautiful. Wrote Critic Ruskin scornfully: "Constable perceives . . . that grass is wet, the meadows flat, and the boughs shady; about as much as . . . might in general be apprehended, between them, by an intelligent faun and a skylark." But Constable had enough faunlike intelligence and skylark blitheness to make him Britain's classic landscape painter...
From now through Thanksgiving millions of Americans would shape their lives to the Big Game. They would scramble for tickets, take long drives in bumper-to-bumper traffic, get cold, wet feet, have too many drinks and get that tired feeling on Mondays. But they would love...
...your baby neurotic? Does he cry at night, suck his thumb, bang his head against the crib, wet the bed, talk or walk in his sleep? If so, he may be getting too much sleep. This conclusion has been forced on British Child Psychiatrist J. A. McCluskie, long a student of dissatisfied babies...
...rained yesterday afternoon on the Business School soccer field just as hard as on the rest of Cambridge, but soccer practice went on nevertheless. Coach "Mac" MacDonald put his squad, somewhat abbreviated by the wet weather, through two hours of kicking practice and scrimmage...