Word: wetter
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...different," freshman Brynne Zuccaro said, "because the ground tends to be wetter it tends to be a faster paced game...
...team; he and his partner, Yardley Acheman, have won statewide renown with stories on a plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder of the local sheriff and the subsequent trial and conviction that put one Hillary Van Wetter on death row. The reporters hire Jack as a driver and general factotum...
Dexter's accountthrough Jack's eyesof this newspaper story in the making is hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics. The reporters' encounters with members of the Van Wetter clan comicallyand ominouslyjuxtapose modern types with people ancient in their cunning and evil. The novel's conclusion feels a bit hasty; but for much of its length, The Paperboy burns with the phosphorescent atmosphere of betrayal...
...deep, 3 billion years ago. Data sent back by the Pioneer probe on its final plunge through Venus' atmosphere last October revealed an unusually high concentration of heavy hydrogen, also called deuterium, which can be explained only if the planet was once much wetter...
Northern Africa was a somewhat wetter place five millenniums ago, and the land was fertile in a broad swath on either side of the Nile. Many Egyptians still lived in huts made of papyrus or mud; raised wheat, barley and livestock; and paid homage to the local chiefs. Within just a few hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created...