Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea first occured to McCurdy at a Yale football practice session. "The pigskin was wet, but the fellows kept a surprisingly firm grip on the ball. They were wearing white gloves." McCurdy, however, has the Crimson's gloves dyed crimson to make the receiver's hand easy to spot...
...Playhouse 90 had the sound idea of dramatizing Colonel Chivington's raid, but somehow the good idea got ambushed by the bad guys along the way. Made on film, Massacre at Sand Creek on TV last week seemed devoted mainly to assuring that young (30), wet-eyed Actor John Derek, in the part of a young lieutenant who was the Indians' friend, got his saddlebags full of heroic moments before getting a Cheyenne arrow in his back. For the third time in 13 weeks, Playhouse 90 deflated the promise of its charter and abused its 1½ hours...
...After Dr. Urquhart's wife wrote a nontechnical article in the American Museum of Natural History's magazine Natural History, eager volunteers came forward, and butterfly-tagging started on a continent-wide scale. Again, failure. It soon became apparent that the labels were not sticking in wet weather...
...grows warm. . .clutches and oozes. . .seeps and slides and slithers. . .and then gets black and ugly and makes repulsive noises when disturbed. No emotion at all. . . no real technique. Ruins the streets. . .messes the shoes. . .turns the cuffs. . .soaks the socks. And its ugly, ugly, ugly, and wet...
...boarding house that was the Olympic Village, athletes, coaches and trainers tried to put into practice the Olympic notion that the games are above national rivalries. They talked with their opponents in sign language at the free hot-chocolate bars. In bustling Melbourne itself, bars stayed crowded, noisy and wet, despite a local law that shut off the taps at 6 p.m. sharp. Scalpers hustled $5 and $7 tickets for as much as $40, and Aussies proved themselves as sports fans by queueing up in the wind and rain, even for seats at practice sessions...