Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preposterous. Take one recent show. When a kid says "Hello, there" to Julia's bright six-year-old son Corey (Marc Copage), he pipes: "Hello, where?" Squeals Corey's teen-age baby sitter: "You've got the wildest mind since they wrapped Ezra Pound in a wet sheet!" Later, a white neighbor lady in Julia's high-priced integrated apartment building pops in to exclaim: "This is the most exciting thing that's happened around here since the cat had kit tens in the washing machine...
When Irving Williams discusses Washington as a "transition environment," he is not talking politics. "The hot, muggy nights bring on fungus and disease," says Williams; yet the winters are neither cold nor wet enough for northern grass. As head gardener of the White House, Williams solves the problem by planting K31 fescue on the South Lawn and a mixture of bluegrass and fescue on the North Lawn, which faces Pennsylvania...
Harvard's aggressive freshman soccer team trounced the University of Connecticut, 7-1, Saturday on a wet Crimson field, adding a seventh win to its undefeated record...
...Mireille Dare and Jean Yanne) are embarking on a motor trip. On a narrow country road, they run into an interminable traffic jam. They inch past a line of strange highway flotsam, including a cage of circus animals and a sailboat on a trailer manned by a mariner in wet-weather gear. A few stalled cars honk furiously at the interlopers, but most of the passengers have simply given up and are playing ball or chess, reading or relieving themselves. When Dare and Yanne finally reach the head of the line, they find a ghastly accident: smashed cars, bodies...
Much of the credit for the South House victory, said one wet source, goes to the support of dorm head residents. For the first time in Marathon history, men were allowed to swim in the contest. South House male residents, said the source, not only swam but brought their wives...