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Word: wetted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This film isn't totally without redemption, though--the soundtrack is one of the rare bright spots. Adding groups such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket was the movie's only stroke of genius. Obviously it was meant to attract a group of money-spending teenagers, even though the smartest of them will spend their money on the soundtrack and stay away from the theater...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...they are realizing that their postcard vistas came at a price. Two weeks ago, the town, which had chosen not to build a levee, was swamped by millions of gallons of murky water. Yet while Davenport flooded, the business district of nearby Rock Island, Illinois, barely got its feet wet. Reason: in 1971 Rock Island decided to build a rock-and-clay floodwall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levees: Do They Work Too Well? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Variations: Try draping a wet, cold towel over your shoulders...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...Science Center fountain: At Harvard, instead of cracking open fire hydrants, intellectuals frolic in a fountain designed to demonstrate Brownian motion and the refraction of light. Still, water is wet, no matter how you dunk yourself...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...Wet towels: A thick, soaking wet cold towel, wrapped around your head turban-style, is just the thing to beat the heat...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

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