Word: wets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather and a wet field have forced the batswomen to postpone games and practice indoors...
...crew. I used to see Kristin and the rest of her eight stumble into breakfast each morning, go through the kitchen in unison, toast their bagels in unison, pour their cereal into bowls in unison, and then sit down to discuss the morning's row. Whether they were all wet because they had gotten splashed, I neither knew nor wished to find out. Very dry, dressed for school and engrossed in my morning paper, I didn't really have any desire to join them. They were a breed apart...
...LAUGHED in Kristin's face when she proposed I become a part of this wet, not-particularly merry band of morning revellers. But, I thought, I have only two classes and neither meets before...
...wet, Cristina." Jeff replied...
...into the 19th century the emotions of parenthood were hypothetically involved when children were abandoned to baby farms, workhouses and, most frequently, to wet nurses, who assumed the duties of motherhood for two to five years of a child's life. In Dickensian realities, the only emotion expended by institutions like workhouses was greed. The relationship that probably comes closest to the Baby M. case was that between a governess and her charges, whom she was technically hired to tutor and discipline, but for whom, more often than not, she provided tenderness and affection as well. Rochester paid Jane Eyre...