Word: wetting
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...eyes become brimful and wet. He speaks in his deliberate, still accented English: "I was eight years old, and I knew bad things were happening, but I don't remember the details. My mother took me away. She explained to me what it meant that I would have a different name, that I cannot make a mistake, that I had to forget my name and that I couldn't, if they said 'Write your name,' I couldn't write it down." He became Andras Malesevics. The Grofs, mother and son, living on stolen papers, pretended to be acquaintances...
...time she arrived, Taylor said, the wet books had been stacked and some had stuck together...
...time the leak was found by graduate students, almost 50 books were thoroughly soaked and another 50 books were wet around the edges, Taylor said...
Fearing that the electrical system had gotten wet, Taylor and the other conservationists had to work by flash-light rather than risk electric shock, Taylor said...
...staff members constantly roam the globe, visiting countries and meeting with finance ministers and central-bank governors. "This is not ivory-tower analysis," says Shailendra Anjaria, director of the external-relations department at the IMF. "This is get-your-feet-wet, on-the-scene inspection." Because the IMF releases its funds in periodic amounts, it has a lever to keep countries in line. Says Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers: "It's very important that we put out fires without giving people an incentive to leave matches around the next time...