Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefaces a telephone call to a woman with a murmured Küss die Hand, the traditional German hand kisser seems hopelessly stiff to other Europeans. He somehow gives the impression that he is afraid of catching germs. To purists, the greatest danger is that the art, dry or wet, is becoming too popular. "When a man used to kiss your hand, and did it right," mourns one venerable German baroness, "it meant he was well-bred. Now you can't be sure any more." Of course, she adds slyly, "I can still distinguish between a genuine antique...
With all its scoring confined to the first half, the booters overwhelmed a weak UConn team that has yet to win a match this year. They dominated the entire game at the Storrs campus on a wet, but excellent field...
Tight Smiles. Hemmed in by five sniffling children who always seem to be "passing the family cold sloppily among them" and a mother-in-law "with a voice like a trench mortar," Bert feels his boredom growing "wantonly, insanely; every week it flung another wet arm around him." As boredom grows, faith recedes, and guilt closes in on Bert like a summer fog. He sits before his typewriter starting sentences he never finishes ("Where pagans go wrong is that . . ."; "Christmas, as Chesterton once put it . . ."). The rejection slips pile up. Whenever Bert tries to explain his trial of faith...
...winners-York, Lancaster, Canterbury, Colchester, Norwich and Warwick-set up blue-chip academic planning boards to get fast approval by older universities. Instead of spending years as apprentice colleges, the old way of breeding British universities, the new schools are opening as full-blown universities. Skirting wet cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...
...continental shelf. The next day the Senate approved a bill granting a 55% Government construction subsidy for the U.S. fleet, which is woefully antiquated in comparison with the fleets of other major fishing nations. The U.S. industry, warned Senator Warren G. Magnuson, "is caught in a cold and losing wet war with Soviet Russia, Japan and other foreign nations...