Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish Pavilion, after an early attack of manana, finally got itself dedicated and hung its old masters-notably Goya's two mayas, clothed and naked-which had been kept crated until the air conditioning was fully functioning to duplicate the exceptionally dry air of Madrid in the exceptionally wet spring air of New York. Even before the dedication, the Spanish had put on a handsome fashion show of seven Spanish designers. Displayed by an armada of imported Spanish beauties, the dresses were themselves spectacular enough-glinting with beads, swirling with bravura-to make many an observer feel that...
Stomach Crawlers. Astruc came back with fellow members of the Quercy Speleological Club of Cahors. They all crawled headfirst into the hole, soon found themselves in a passageway no more than 20 in. high. Exhaling to squeeze between rocks, rubbing their noses in the wet clay, they inched along. Then one of them saw carvings on the ceiling...
...battle with wood over the load-bearing structural parts of the home. Wood and aluminum are wrestling for the right to be in window frames; steel and aluminum are fighting over outside door frames and sills. Gypsum board for interior walls has proved cheaper and faster to install than wet plaster, but it now has challengers in plywood finished by a photo process to look like expensive paneling and Masonite precoated with wallpaper or imitation wood grain...
...Governors of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico were madder than wet hens, and all over a dry lake. The object of their ire was Interior Secretary Stuart Udall, whom they accused of stealing their hydroelectric water supply and using it to feed power plants in California and Udall's native Arizona...
...Swiss Alps above St. Moritz were still white with the hard-packed snows of winter, and here and there April showers had laid a blanket of fresh, wet snow on top. To the casual eye, it was beautiful. But the beauty was lost on officials at the Institute for Snow Research and Avalanches in Davos. Tests indicated that the new snow was not binding with the old. And when warm weather followed last week, and the snow began to melt, the warning flashed out quickly: "Lawine [Avalanche...