Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel Jr. (Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel served coffee and sandwiches) rushed to develop the negatives, sent them, still wet, to a photoengraver's. The photoengravings went in turn to a printing plant...
...mistrust his ability to stay well; if his pulse rate seems slow to him in Las Vegas, it means a call to New York, for his doctor to take the next plane out. He will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle of my back." His personal vanity extends to his feet, which he exercises against the wall at odd moments during his busy days and nights...
Vain Hope. At 9:44 a.m. all was gay chatter aboard the Rangoon-Prome Express. At 9:45 an earth-shattering explosion, followed in quick succession by two more, picked up long sections of the track and shook the cars in the air like wet laundry. Gunfire poured from the trackside paddyfields and jungle as two cars of the train plowed into the disabled engine ahead. Other cars of the long train overturned in a nightmare of confusion, as tumbled, screaming passengers were impaled on splinters or crushed in the press of twisted steel...
...most department stores reported the best year ever. For Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store, June was the best month in its 66-year history: starting in April, small-appliance sales climbed 69% over 1955, jumped another 22% in May and still more in June. After a cold, wet spring, Dallas, Chicago and Boston stores found a summer fillip in June's warm weather and clear skies, were even starting to move such heavy appliances as fans, air conditioners and power lawn mowers. Denver's steady population growth kept both soft and hard goods at boom levels...
...Germany June was uncommonly cold and wet, and a group of Bundestag Deputies formally asked the government to investigate. Other German legislators demanded an official check on the radioactivity of the ocean. In France and Italy the public has the same conviction: the weather is unprecedented; it is the bomb's fault...