Search Details

Word: wets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Come what might-or May-much of the nation was caught up in the spirit of renewal. When the wet season in Northern California turned up bone dry, about 2,000 San Franciscans, a few dressed in foul-weather gear, staged a modern rain dance in the Hyatt Regency hotel. They foxtrotted to Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, April Showers and Stormy Weather. The dance was not dry; the weather stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEASONS: Spring: It's Lethal and Lovely | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Tervainen continued to play meticulous golf from tee to green while Vik took a wet bogey on the dog leg 15th when he hooked a 5-wood into the drink. He rolled in a birdie putt on number 17 but Tervainen smaked in a 40-footer to hang on doggedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Finish Third in Ivy League Championship | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

Entering the competition, the Crimson was at a decided disadvantage, as it had left all of its wet tee-shirters in Cambridge. A Harvard triumph, then, would require mammoth efforts in the other two events, and this is where the story gets interesting...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...course, there was more going on in the state that houses Stokette's and Dollar Bill Stinson than simply bananas and beer chugging and wet tee-shirts and if this whole thing sounds sexist, well, then...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...mention these last two things? I had to take an alternate route for these last three inches because Harvard forfeited the wet tee-shirt contest...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | Next