Word: wets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorry, this is a charter," the student driver said as he slammed the Harvard shuttle bus door in the face of a couple of wet, Quad-bound students last week. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, could only smile faintly to his precious bus cargo, a group of influential Harvard alumni known as the University Resources Committee...
...when up against criticism. When she gets into an argument she talks all the time. Talk. Talk. Talk. Because of this she is not a very good chairman." She can be scornful of those who are not tough in either performance or philosophy, reserving for them her ultimate pejorative, "wet," which in her lexicon is an accusation of gutlessness...
...gray morning in January my baby girl sled into this far-fetched world. No doctors, nurses, hospitals, Representatives of Civilization to take her away and sanitize her, stop me from holding her all wet and hot and squiggly, washing her myself, nesting, bonding. I could look out my window and see the sentinel mahogany gums. They were blue-green, and their branches swam in the clean wind. I didn't want to be anywhere else...
...smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside the soldiers, and himself, that enjoys the appalling charm of war. Writes Herr: "But somewhere all the mythic tricks intersected, from the lowest John Wayne wet dream to the most aggravated soldier-poet fantasy, and where they did I believe that everyone knew everything about everyone else, every one of us there a true volunteer. Not that you didn't hear some overripe bullshit about it: Hearts and Minds, People of the Republic, tumbling dominoes, maintaining...
...NCAA indoor champion slipped in the wet weather on his first vault, and missed his next two attempts at 14 feet, after passing at earlier heights. A successful vault of 14 feet would have given Stiles the win and added four points to the thinclad's tally...