Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mysterious and sickening stench-which seemed to combine the odors of onions, ammonia, burning rubber, creosote, dried fish and wet dogs-was borne in upon San Francisco from the Pacific Ocean. It set housewives to sealing their windows with adhesive tape, drove office workers out of the upper floors of high buildings, gave some panicky citizens the idea that the city was being subjected to a gas attack. It turned out to be a gas called S-Ethyl-Thiouracil, which had been blown to sea from oil refineries, then blown back in again...
...Wet Art. Manhattan's Starling Products brought out the latest in bathroom art: plastic shower curtains with color reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings (The Bridge at Aries and Boats of Saintes-Maries). The curtains, first of a series of reproductions of famed paintings, will retail...
...least two elections have been decided by trifling campaign bobbles. In 1884, the Republicans' James G. Elaine lost wet, Catholic New York-and thereby the nation-when an ill-advised supporter rashly labeled the Democrats the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." It is political legend that the Republicans' Charles Evans Hughes lost California, and the nation, to Wilson by failing to shake the hand of California's potent Senator Hiram Johnson...
That evening the delegates assembled for their first regular meeting in the Concertgebouw, where they soon found that the Dutch signs Let op - Nat meant "wet paint." The actual sessions had no linguistic shocks; the delegates sat comfortably in red plush chairs and tinkered with the knobs of a simultaneous translation system which brought them the proceedings in English, French or German...
Discus in the Rain. The second day dawned cold and rainy. Mathias won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...