Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Ago, Tomorrow is a British film about two paralytics who find their handicaps no barrier to love. There are perhaps a dozen other ways to describe the plot, none of which would make it sound any less sentimental. Moreover, Director-Scenarist Bryan Forbes (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) seems less dedicated to insights than to untoward assaults on the tear ducts...
Probably the best thing the defense can do is pray for rain. Marinaro slipped at least six times on wet Polyturf while making his cuts behind the line of scrimmage against Princeton, and his limited mobility held him to a mere 144 yards and one touchdown...
Picnics and Wet Stuff THOUGH operatives of the CIA are cautioned not to use professional slang lest they be identified as spies, the argot of espionage has become part of the language around the world. Herewith a glossary of current spy terms, most of them used in the West but some international: BAG JOB: In the U.S., an illegal search of a suspected spy's residence to obtain incriminating information. Also, sending secret data back home through the diplomatic pouch. BLACK BAGGING: Delivery of funds to an undercover agent or network by a courier...
EXECUTIVE ACTION: Any violent action including assassination or sabotage or, in Britain, arrest. The Soviets call it mokrye dela (wet stuff...
...unless the customer is also subject to penalty. Rape would continue to be punishable insofar as it is defined as forcible penetration, because such a definition involves a physical characteristic unique to one sex and so "does not deny equal rights to the other sex." (Similarly, civil regulation of wet nurses or sperm donors would be permissible.) Statutory-rape laws concerning voluntary intercourse would probably be taken off the books, though both young boys and young girls could still be protected against any sexual abuse by older persons...