When dealing with chemotherapy-induced nausea--or any upset stomach--the American Cancer Society recommends eating dry foods such as pretzels and sipping on--you guessed it--ginger ale.

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Only after the president's signature was dry did the American Medical Association realize what had happened and send a letter to the government warning of unintended consequences, including more office visits and extra paperwork.

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Meanwhile, the PC is played by John Hodgman, contributor to The Daily Show and This American Life and all-around dry wit extraordinaire.

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But Depp has said he's less subservient, honors the proud American Indian warrior and displays a dry sense of humor seen throughout Indian Country.

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It will take 6.57 billion diapers to keep every American baby living in poverty clean and dry this year.

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In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, California.

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On the dry seabird islands off the South American and South African coasts, immense deposits of bird droppings, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, had accumulated over centuries.

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Since parting with Sprint, through which it ran its American traffic, Telekom has been left high and dry.

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"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.

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