Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would get wet...
...Wet Nurse. That would be nothing new for John Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...
...northern apple country, Bazouges felt that it had not yet been truly "liberated." Before the war, the people could make as much tax-free Calvados as they wanted for local consumption. The Germans had decreed that each orchardist could distill only ten liters a year-hardly enough to wet the sale of a good heifer. The postliberation French government had not only failed to repeal the silly law, it had even tried to enforce...
...Toscanini rehearsal or resulted in a Toscanini performance. Once, when a singer yelped on an entrance, the tireless little tyrant roared in his hoarse, drama-ridden voice: "No! NO!" then stood speechless, slapping his leg with his baton, trying to suppress what he calls his "bad character." Once, dripping-wet in his black alpaca rehearsal coat, the maestro stopped the brassy triumphal march: "No! Not for the dead. For the living, for the living...
Under the wet Indiana sky last week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...