Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard sailing team really ran into lousy weather last weekend in its two regattas. Cold, wet and blustery winds plagued both the Ivy League Championships in New London, Ct., and the Friis Trophy Regatta on Mystic Lake in Medford. And by the time the weekend was over, the spirits of the Harvard competitors were even bleaker than the weather conditions...
...Nasser's apartment while he was scribbling notes for a magazine article. He had just written: "If we don't proceed to Palestine, danger will approach us." The Israelis smashed his door off its hinges and riddled him with bullets. The floor where he fell was still wet with gore six hours later. On a nearby coffee table sat an empty glass, a half-full pack of Marlboros and an ashtray of cigarette butts...
...field showed no ill effects of the wet spring after yesterday's practice...
...present incarnation (Elliott Gould), Marlowe becomes a chain-smoking shlemiel. Gould looks less like a private eye than like a junkie half on the nod slouching along Sunset Strip looking for a fix. The only dope here is Marlowe himself. He stumbles into a job of playing wet nurse to an alcoholic fount of bestsellers (Sterling Hayden) whose ice-maiden wife (Nina Van Pallandt, late of the Clifford Irving/Howard Hughes headlines) plays at being concerned about his welfare...
Because he stutters badly, Hoagland does most of the listening. He greatly admires self-reliance and know-how: the man who minces lead pipe to make his own buckshot and carries bottle caps filled with wax to kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers...