Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pennsylvania Avenue was wet with autumn showers; the tires of the big, shiny sedan sang until it slowed for the turn into the White House drive. As the big machine stopped, with the air of quiet pomp that only official cars achieve, the wind bent trees out across the wide, wet lawns. The burly man in the back seat-Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet-did not appear to notice. He had arrived punctually at 1 o'clock; he got out quickly, and walked into the executive mansion, looking straight ahead...
...Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
This time, Navymen wet their fingers and gazed anxiously aloft. The clamor for immediate demobilization and the complaints of reserves whistled through the rigging. The drive to merge the services (see below) might blow either fair or foul. The Navy no longer had such a great and loving friend in the White House as a Roosevelt (T. or F.D.). Onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman went out of his way last week to give the men in blue and gold the back of his hand. Praising General of the Army George Marshall the President wisecracked: "He [Marshall] succeeded in getting the Navy...
...will stop raining tomorrow, for the World Series begins and all the writing talent of the College will wish to dock to the opening of the SERVICE NEWS fall competition without getting wet Beer, in addition, should not be drunk in wet weather, for the Med School students claim it brings ulcers. And ulcers keep you from drinking beer...
...result has been sadly apparent in Mauldin's daily cartoons. Some have fallen woefully flat (Willie and Joe worrying about getting their feet wet in the rain). Others have gotten by because they were just gags (a staff officer consoling a four-star general: "There's always politics, sir -or a South American revolution...