Word: wetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks, flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the central and southeastern parts of the state. The fast- rising waters left at least 15 people dead and caused damage estimated in the millions...
...covert state, the invisible government that operates in this country and seems to be an unelected parallel government to our legitimate government. The CIA and military intelligence all got out of hand somewhere in the 1960s. It suddenly reached another level, where the concept of assassination -- the wet affair, liquidation -- became the vogue...
...Kwanzaa gifts; they rationalize the excess by buying from black-owned businesses. That, they say, is in the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics. "This is the U.S., and if anything becomes successful, it almost automatically becomes commercial," says Copage. "Doing otherwise is like trying to surf without getting wet...
Forget the fish, the flies that attract them are so exquisite it seems a sin to get them wet. With such tantalizing names as Silver Monkey, Colonel's Lady, Pompadour and Easy Off, the flies in this beautifully photographed book are the real trophies that should be mounted on the wall...
ESTIMATED ANNUAL INCOME--Two "classes," 1500 students per "class," an average of $40,000 per "student": $120 million. Subtract $10 million for upkeep, wet bar and framed diplomas. Add $10 million windfall for axing professor salaries...