Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton-Dartmouth game was buried in snow. Yard-markers disappeared, officials blended with players, spectators shuddered over a dwindling supply of Scotch and began to beat a retreat from Palmer Stadium. But nothing seemed to bother a lanky Princeton halfback named Dan Sachs-neither wind nor snow nor wet ball, nor well-drilled Dartmouth line. He scored almost every way possible, passing for one touchdown, running back a kick for another, intercepting a pass for a third, schussing over from scrimmage for a fourth. Fans with antifreeze and the determination to last out the afternoon saw Princeton and Sophomore Sachs...
Yale captain Lee Schomer called early yesterday morning to say that his team didn't want to play on a wet field. Harvard captain H. Peers Brewer reported the field in good condition at noon, but Schomer felt he could not get the team together...
...something longer, headier, woozier-such as the tale of a small Dylan accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...
...bird-brained wife (Phyllis Love)-the plot is a staple of artificial comedy and farce. But here the tricks and artifices are applied, with considerable loss in credibility, to something serious and real. Moreover, as anything but a purely comic butt, the professor seems just a little too wet behind the ears and behind the times...
...delivered (to Athens) on a cargo plane in time to make the concert. Spare reeds and strings were plentiful; even the tympani player got around his problem of extremes of humidity by putting the drumheads under a hair drier when they loosened in damp climates and covering them with wet diapers when they got too tight in dry climates...