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Word: wetted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showing me dry-fly casting on a path above the river. Move the arm, not the wrist; keep the arc of the cast between 2 and 10 o'clock. But today the fish we are going for, whitefish and cutthroats, are loitering on the bottom. So we will wet cast and roll cast instead, with little weights on the line and flies that look like nymphs. Roll casting requires less arm movement. You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion. I find I'm not half bad at this, thanks wholly to Chouinard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YVON CHOUINARD: Reaching the Top by Doing the Right Thing | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Moving quicker now I barrelled through the growing downpour, nearly missing a number of completely bundled and dry, but hence blind, glass, classmates headed up Quincy Street As I reached the door of Memorial Hall, my khakis one color in front and another in back, my shirt wet and my backpack soaked through, I distinctly heard a bearded man in the distance call for animals...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Dartboard: Come Again Some Other Day | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...know exactly when I lost my mind. June 1996, just south of the border in a pueblocita they call Cancún. The agent of my transformation: a stylish devil named Tequila. My senior trip was about foam parties and shady beds, not yards of beer and wet T-shirt contests. In the end I looked more like a "popcorn crab" (the words of a best friend) than Serena Atschul. Does it matter? Maybe...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Confessions of an Autumnophile | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company assembled, the events played out dramatically. Suspended high above young Lothrop's nervous brow, the wriggling scales gleamed in the flash of disbelieving news photographersountil the moment of truth, when the cold, wet fish plopped into his open mouth...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

What are some of the thoughts and passions of the gay community, as represented by yesterday's posters? How about, "I praise the good Lord with my wet, quivering clitoris," or, "St. Sebastian: the first fag in the military." What in these posters would encourage a closeted student to attempt to convey his or her most intimate feelings...

Author: By Alex A. Boni-saenz and Cliff S. Davidson, S | Title: Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

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