Word: wets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Botosh said that between 15 and 20 parcels were so wet that he and other Science Center employees had to remove their contents and repackage them in envelopes. Several dozen others were splashed, he said...
Under dark, wet snowfall deep in Washington State's North Cascades, Terje Haakonsen charges his snowboard across the finish line to victory at the Mount Baker Banked Slalom. Through the evergreen mists, he carves to a stop past a small group of racers, officials and assorted stragglers. Within inner circles, Haakonsen, 23, is considered the Michael Jordan of snowboarding, and Mount Baker possibly the sport's most respected event. But when Haakonsen finishes, there are no corporate sponsorships, no teams, no coaches, no flags, no network TV. A few ragged kids in wet gear cheer the best rider...
Those readers whose moms still do their laundry may not be familiar with this concept. Laundry guilt is the psychological state resulting from taking somebody else's wet clothing out of a washing machine and leaving it in a bedraggled pile on top of the next washer so you can put your own clothes in. Alternatively, laundry guilt can ensue after removing dry clothes from a dryer and placing them either (a) in a plastic garbage bag or (b) on top of a washer...
...Dartboard are uncertain where to draw the line. But we do know how uncomfortable it is when the owner of the wet pile of clothes you're removing from the washing machine suddenly comes up behind you. "Oh, are those my clothes?" he says, halfway between annoyed and embarrassed. "Sorry," we say, slinking away. We'll avoid that guy for weeks. Next time, we'll try doing laundry in the middle of the night on a weekday...
...Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...