Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wet. In St. Louis, August Bischoff, admitting his hangover, reported to police that he couldn't remember which of St. Louis' four rivers he had driven his car into...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...weather had been wet and cold, the political news was chilling, and the price of wine had risen. Parisians last week warmed up to crime news. The sensational Paris-Presse reported that its circulation had risen from...
...China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million; a few days later the cost of the rice had risen to $23 million...
...last year's grasshoppers laid their eggs in the soil of many western and midwestern states. What the young hoppers need is a good long spell of dry weather to nurse them along to destructive maturity. The grasshoppers that do the most damage are primarily a semidesert species. Wet weather blights them in youth...