Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says she: "I had a good childhood . . . girlhood . . . virginhood. . . . The Long Island Sound under moonlight, the waves playing music against the shore . . . the taste of warm tomatoes eaten from the garden. . . . The bustle of Christmas, the taut joy of gifts . . . bare feet on wet dawn lawns...
Hero Coe left her for a flawlessly lovely pianist, with a mouth "well-shaped and bee-blown and neatly outlined in some wet red unguent." Her name was Roxane. When she began to romp with Abner, Roxane neglected to mention that she had married his best friend. So after Abner went to war, he spent his furloughs pursuing her through the back streets of married love. The U.S. State Department in Paris decided Abner should be given U.S. papers. He made his way to safety in America, while Roxane and her husband died as hostages before a Nazi firing squad...
These words were ink-wet on the newsprint when London dispatches like Geoffrey Parsons' indictment of U.S. fighters arrived; when other dispatches questioned the quality of the Army's heavy bombers. People wondered, and they had the right to ask: "Who's lying...
...hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...
...recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...