Word: wetness
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...Wet. In Kansas City, Mo., weather forecasters of the American Meteorological Society picked an "ideal day" for their annual picnic, were rained...
...when the Iowa belched the flame of a full, nine-gun broadside which threw her several feet crabwise through the black water. Then her sister ships and the British joined in: broadside after broadside of 2,100-and 1,560-lb. shells screeched through the wet...
...wheat crop is expected to be the largest ever. The wet, cold weather that delayed corn planting failed to harm the winter wheat which was planted last autumn. But despite a record crop (1.1billion bushels), for every bushel of wheat used to feed cattle at home there will be one less bushel available next winter to ship to hungry mouths in Europe...
...long, cool, wet spring favored aphid reproduction and killed off many of its natural enemies (notably ladybugs). The aphid, or plant louse, a squashy insect usually about the size of a pinhead, is not rated as a big-league pest in the U.S. But its Ohio holiday was only a sample of what the aphid might do if it were let alone. If all her offspring lived, a single female could girdle the earth with her progeny in a single season...
...veteran Giants: "If you'd been standing in the right place, you wouldn't have had to run so hard." In the locker room he got two nicknames, "Bright Eyes" and "Little Springtime." Furiously denying that he ever received "mash notes from girls," he learned to snap wet towels back at his tormentors. The sport writers dubbed him "Master Melvin...