Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most poultry plants are cramped and noisy, with floors constantly wet and slippery. Some rooms are cold, others hot and malodorous enough to bring a visitor close to vomiting. Employees are sometimes splashed with feces, blood, guts or chicken fat. Even more odious is the industry's rising injury rate. Labor Department statistics show that 27% of poultry workers suffer on-the-job injuries and illnesses each year, making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute...
CHESTNUT HILL--Last night, the wet turf of Boston College's Alumni Stadium was as slick as Bill Clinton, and the Harvard field hockey team just couldn't keep its footing as the Crimson lost to B.C., 1-0, and slipped to a damp 3-6-2 on the season...
...doubled up with laughter as cliche rebounded off smirk, off slick quip, off tear-jerking'''real-life'" story. And then that charming Admiral Stockdale (with a passing resemblance to my grandfather) devastated his opponents with a faculty of articulacy as yet unseen in the Western world. Laugh? I positively wet myself...
Poor, his colleagues and the city all say the time has come for the shelter, the only "wet" one in Cambridge, to find a new home. And the shelter, run by the Cambridge and Somerville Program for Drug Abuse and Rehabilitation (CASPAR), has already set its sights on a property in the heart of Central Square...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf says the council "has not made up its mind" whether Green St. is the best site for the shelter. She also said accepting the wet shelter into their neighborhood would be no "more than their fair share in a societal problem...