Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were asleep and the gunners never got their guns down into final defensive positions." SP/4 Schulte found a broader moral in Mary Ann: "A lot of us spend 300 or 360 days a year in the jungle. We sleep in the rain, we eat out of cans, we stay wet ,ten or twelve days straight, until our bodies look like wrinkled prunes. The people back in the States think this war is over...
...never realized that human beings could work this hard," says James Mc-Alister, 22, a Belfast-born roustabout who fled the religious wars of home. "At 6 in the morning, it's dark, wet and cold. You begin sweeping the water from the deck that accumulates from the night's mists. The deck must be kept dry so that the men don't slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust...
...occasions the panel can be less brutal and more patient. At one hearing James Q. Wilson got all checked up as he patiently explained that while Harvard is a great place sometimes getting things done around here is very difficult, as difficult at times as trying to move a wet string. He even acted out pushing a wet string on the table. He told the accused girl to have patience, be reasonable, keep trying. Two days later, the Committee informed the same girl that non-violently standing on the steps of University Hall with 150 other people while Samuel...
...hearing. Wilson explained that it was now the middle of June and most of the Committee members had left Cambridge. He offered to show the photograph to the Committee members still in town to see what their reactions would be. It seemed that we were back to the wet string again. I had doubts about the forcefulness of Wilson's advocacy in Fink's favor, but under the circumstances, I accepted his terms...
...Castle Hotel has already installed them in its luxury suites. Playboy Tycoon Hugh Hefner has one-king-size, of course, and covered with Tasmanian opossum. The growing number of manufacturers and distributors, with such appropriate names as Aquarius Products, the Water Works, Innerspace Environments, Joyapeutic Aqua Beds and the Wet Dream, can hardly meet the demand. They have sold more than 15,000 since August...