Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protests of Congressmen against the expansion planned by the armed forces still popped and sizzled like a bunch of wet firecrackers. This week the U.S. public heard the other side in some detail. The case of the Army and Navy for a combined force of 11,100,000 armed men (and women auxiliaries) by the end of 1944 was presented in a report to Congress by 75-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island...
...night Rangers are often summoned from their tents and Niesen huts, sent off through the eternal rain on compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...
Coach Hal Union's water bables will wet their flippers in a sort of warm-up tonight when they face Providence Boys Club in the Indoor Athletic Building tank at 8:45 o'clock. The affair is strictly a bracer--before they meet Dartmouth Saturday night, and Princeton and Yale shortly thereafter...
...Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...
Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941) has turned his amateur yachtsmanship to use as a lieutenant on the Corvette Flower. This is his third winter of service in the North Atlantic convoys. Corvettes are the smallest British vessels in active service. They "would roll on wet grass," and some of Lieut. Monsarrat's most vivid writing describes merely the mixture of discomfort and deep pride which the corvettes engender in the heroic, fatalistic corvetteers who man them...