Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texans called these illegal emigres "wet feet." Some border employers complained that U.S. officialdom was too zealous in its efforts to stop the traffic. Border Texans were also howling mad because their local Mexicans were being "lured" in turn by northern and western farmers...
...water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when wet...
Democrats and ALPsters, instead of glowing over victory, rushed into print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...
...more rugged spots-far in advance of the "country clubs" like Pearl Harbor, Noumea, Kodiak-movies are the only form of entertainment. The poorest show will draw a full house. Often 4,000 to 5,000 men will sit on wet ground, sometimes in pouring rain, through an entire feature-length picture...
...farmers' lush income was not all due to price inflation. Much of it they had earned the hard way, by longer hours of sweat, toil-and some cause for tears. After a wet late spring that brought disastrous floods and killing frosts, they plowed and seeded from sunup to midnight. Some worked by moonlight; others -rigged up floodlights, or mounted battery-operated searchlights on their tractors...