Word: wetness
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This week winter winds returned again to the southern front. But it appeared that the Germans had weathered the Russian season. There were several weeks of sticky wet weather ahead, when the determined Russians might make important headway. But for the time being the crucial battle of Russia was probably being fought in factories and fields far behind the lines, where fresh men were being trained, new weapons tooled, against the Russian summer...
Lithographs, printed from a dampened stone on which a design, drawn with greasy crayon, retains a coating of printer's ink which fails to stick to the" wet stone. Lithographs have been made since the beginning of the 19th Century, but have become popular with U.S. artists only since the 1920s. Today they are probably the most popular form of print, and their recent development has been almost exclusively a U.S. phenomenon...
...roar and crash of cannonade and the bursting bombs that are shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...
...bleeding from coral cuts, into a launch licensed to carry 15. Forty men gave up the struggle and turned back to the island to wait. ... If the night on the island was miserable, the one aboard the launch was indescribable. Waves rolled over the deck where we were sprawled wet and shivering, but we were still hoping we'd make Sumatra before dawn brought Japanese bombers...
Moulmein fell. Sweat-wet, bare-backed British artillerymen fired point-blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...