Wet or dry, the place stinks.

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Kerouac, who had struggled with fame and alcohol addiction since the success of On the Road, ventured to Big Sur seeking solitude and a place to dry out.

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Because of the different seasons, wet and dry, we moved from place to place with our animals to seek grazing land.

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Rinse the scallops under cool water, pat dry with a paper towel, and place them in a shallow bowl.

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Yet that dry, hot landscape seems to be the place where thousands upon millions of people want to live.

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This was not a place to get a shampoo or blow dry with your haircut.

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And once a few seemingly dry facts have been established - a date and place of birth, for instance - the web can help bring the past to life.

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"Ford Madox Ford was very witty and dry and the humor comes out of a quite dark place, while Tom has a very strong sense of humor that's more rooted in intellectual wordplay, " she says.

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This is, it turns out, a perfect place for nurturing grapes that respond to warm, dry autumns--the Maremma is often glowing with an Indian summer at harvesttime.

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In its place, he created an L-shaped house with taupe stucco and dry-stacked-slate exteriors.

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In the dry uplands of Chile, rich mineral nitrate deposits were then found, and gradually took the place of guano in the late 19th century.

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