Word: wettest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lovers of Burgundy can put most of the blame for this year's price panic on the vagaries of the weather. The summer, among the coldest and wettest in memory, was a cruel one for the Pinot grapes of the Côte d'Or, the narrow Burgundy slope that produces some of the world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks...
...number of Europeans on the road, on the rails or in the air this summer has reached a record 75 million, triple the level of 15 years ago. Largely because much of Europe was beset by the wettest and coldest July in a decade -the worst in France in 90 years-the hordes have been moving south to the Mediterranean in greater numbers and later in the summer than ever before...
...best victory I can ever remember," captain Skip Kistner said after returning last night. "It was the wettest course I've ever seen. There was no roll on the drives, the wind was howling, and everybody was losing a lot of balls because they were sinking into the course and disappearing...
...attempting to articulate fatuities, the cast pulls out all the glottal stops. Caine shuttles between Anglo-Saxon, German and Cockney. Oscarsson, a Swede, is absurdly fanatic, with energy and witches to burn. Sharif, the first Near Eastern Westphalian, has, as ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is Clavell who bears prime responsibility for this drive-in Mother Courage. His battle scenes are stagy and confused; even his anachronistic editorials ("War is all I have") ring false. Clavell misunderstands the nature of historic evil, of political hysteria, and of war itself -Thirty Years' or any time, anywhere...