Word: wetness
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Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
...badly upset by acts of God. If the corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...
Died. Colonel Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 80, Assistant Secretary of War under Harding, Republican Congressman from New York (1923-31), cousin to Jap-imprisoned Lieut. General Jonathan ("Skinny") Wainwright; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A prohibitionist, he retired from Congress rather than vote wet to please his cocktailing constituents in suburban Westchester County...
...rainy season added its wet misery to the Philippine fighting, two U.S. armies and their guerrilla allies clumped doggedly through the mud, compressing the Japanese into soggy pockets. Inside these pockets the Japanese continued to resist as well as any army can without help of sea or air power...
...wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...