Word: wets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
...photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while...
...wet and it was wild...
Lousy weather and wet field conditions forced the Harvard field hockey team to postpone its game with Boston University, which was scheduled to be played yesterday at Soldiers Field at 3 p.m. The game has been rescheduled for this afternoon at Boston University's Nickerson Field...
...spend an additional $175 million this year to introduce the product. When it goes on sale in January, Sensor will be priced at about $3.75 for the razor and three blades. Gillette hopes to sell 15 million razors the first year and snare 15% of the $770 million U.S. wet- shaving market...