Word: wetted
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...infield, the biggest void is at the hot corner where Reilly played for the past four seasons. Sophomores Kennon and Nicole Desharnais have been getting their feet wet at third base, as has freshman Cheryl Sadow...
...PENTAGON had its $800 "directional impact devices" (hammers) and its $400 "waste delivery systems" (toilet seats). The Science Center has its $50,000 wet rocks. And now the Business School has a $47,000 cable television. Or should we call it an "entertainment distribution complex...
...plow through the literature of Afrocentrism is to enter a world of claims about technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon...
...Administration proposed a new definition of a wetland that would open at least 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of off-limits land to development. It was a good try, but opposition prompted the White House to back away, at least temporarily, from a policy change that was all wet...
...know him as a joyless monomaniac who pursued achievement not out of passion for the undertaking but out of a tortured focus on the finish line. "He told me 20 times that he never liked sailing," says Wussler. "He said, 'You know, Bob, I got cold and I got wet.' He was more in love with just winning." These days Turner talks about the "Zen experience" of fly-fishing. He has stopped pacing around his home and office (Wussler once counted 74 consecutive circles). And when it is suggested that heaven for Turner might be an eternal baseball game...