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Word: wets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest wave of bad weather--and it was at times literally a wave--began last Friday, with a storm that dumped almost a foot and a half of heavy, wet snow on the Boston area...

Author: By Davis B. Hilder, | Title: I'd Prefer Philadelphia | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

...reader along with violence or sensationalism. Features on weapons are geared to lure gun fanatics the way Motor Trend courts auto freaks. They go into exquisite detail. One review of a new pistol notes that "the front strap is serrated, a big help when the gun hand is wet sweaty or bloody." What? Me obsessed with destruction...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Grim Business at the Newsstand | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

Others complained of wet feet. "Everytime I come back from being outside I fantasize about soaking my sopping cold feet in a tub of hot water," said Bo Price...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Students Slip and Slide As Harvard Ices Over | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...fuel use. One problem: methods of storing solar energy are not effective enough to be relied on as the sole source of electric or heating power in the cold winter climates of such areas as New England and the northern Middle West. Prices for getting shale oil or using wet-steam deposits in the earth to generate electricity are also far from commercially acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Fiddling Dangerously While Fuel Burns | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exactly What Is a Photograph? | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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