Word: wetting
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After the first fluffy snowfall wears out its welcome and turns into filthy brown slush piled on the side of street corners, get ready to contend with frozen hands, chapped lips, wet feet, biting winds, and days with only a couple of seconds of sunlight...
...Stone's brain. It's a jungle in there, luscious, overgrown, drenched in sensuality and high seriosity, alive with death. The Vietnam of his mind is "waisthigh in vegetation," as Stone writes in his novel A Child's Night Dream (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $21.95). "Green with wet...
...ventilation is not like the other houses," Bossert said. "Our biggest problem is with smoke from burning wet logs in the fireplaces...
When it does, it will find a lot to study. While satellites usually travel horizontally around a planet's equator, Surveyor orbits vertically, flying over both Martian poles. If there is organic chemistry on Mars, it will probably be in a wet, carbon-rich region, and the ice caps--made largely of water and carbon dioxide--fill that bill nicely...
...naval force that crept onto the Lebanese coast in the blackness of last Thursday night consisted of 16 men. Some of them swam ashore; the Lebanese found their wet suits and fins. At 12:41 a.m., on the outskirts of the town of Insariyeh, two miles inland, a pre-planted bomb suddenly detonated in the midst of the unit. Within seconds the Israelis were raked by machine-gun fire. Eleven died, and four lay wounded, leaving just one soldier unscathed and able to radio for help...