Word: wet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretty intimidating for the forwards to see a girl my size coming at them," said the 5'10" sophomore, who wore suction gloves to better handle the wet ball for the first time ever...
...game billed as a tune-up for Tuesday's Ivy opener against powerhouse Brown, Harvard exercised its shooting toes and swamped the lackluster Unicorns, 8-0, in spite of the wet and cold Saturday morning, for its second consecutive shutout and its fourth straight victory...
Kansas City vs. Cleveland, Cancelled--wet grounds...
...Prince Georges County, Md., by contrast, a judge who suddenly found himself short of jurors simply sent sheriffs deputies out to round up some citizens. Among the 20 or so corralled were a woman heading home with a bag of groceries and an angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever suggested doing...
Overgrown, eroded, but still discernible, the canals were built with extraordinary ingenuity and industriousness. (Habitual sloth was a capital crime among the Incas.) The winding route from the heights down into the lower slopes was designed to divert enough water to wet the terraced plots without overflowing or bursting through the stonework. Maintenance teams had to patrol the waterways year-round to keep them clear of silt and rubble. In the 16th century the Spanish came, dreaming of El Dorado, and forced farmers to harvest gold instead of maize. Irrigation systems like the one in Patallacta were let go. Soldiers...