Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris this week, the builders of the West's defenses gathered about the scaffolding, rolled up their sleeves and hurried to put the roof on the achievement of the London conference before it is struck by icy gales from Moscow or by damp rot from within...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point...
...match his sheets and his boots buffed with champagne. Or again, he is the glorious adventurer. At the end of the picture, he dies in a Calais garret, with the King at his side, of a genteel consumption taken, as he says, when he "shared a carriage with a damp stranger...
...Frenchman also insisted that he did not object to the Germans making "submachine guns and cartridges," but did not want them building tanks and planes. At that, the Germans demurred. The usually impeccable Eden emerged from the fourth day's session with his hair ruffled and his face damp with perspiration...
Blots & Bandages. Still, it was quite unlike the picture Leonardo was believed to have painted. Milan's cold and damp winter wind (which her opera stars survive by will alone) had been whining at the wall that held the mural for 450 seasons. In Leonardo's own lifetime the wall began to show splotches of dampness. Over the centuries, well-meaning restorers flattened out blisters and bandaged the picture's cracks with liberal applications of plaster, painted over to resemble the chilblained masterpiece beneath. Five separate times, at least, alien hands overlaid Leonardo's mural...