Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Races. On the day of the race, dawn broke with the usual damp wind off Jamaica Bay. But nothing dampened the air of brisk efficiency at the track. The long green barns disgorged a morning-long stream of highbred, high-headed horses. From the barns of the small-time owners and trainers they came in ones and twos. From the wealthier barns they came in "sets," each horse mounted by an exercise boy tricked up in a sweater dyed bright with the owner's colors...
...French lookouts spied Red concentrations in the flarelight, headed for Claudine and Eliane. At 2200, bugles shrilled through the damp night air, and four Red regiments attacked. By dawn, they had four outposts in Eliane. Then they overran Bald Head Hill, which commanded the center from the east...
...upon: "wild berries, marsh flowers full of earthworms, caterpillars and insects, and even earth." About all that distinguished them from animals was that they could make fire and stand upright. In the filth of their gloomy forest village, Gheerbrant saw that the Guaha-ribo "still sleeps in his dark, damp haven, curled in on himself like a foetus. He is as yet immune to those feelings which make a man shiver and inspire him to go forth into the outer light ... He flees from the light at once, hiding himself in the thickest part of the forest...
Then police got their orders. Mounted cops charged the crowd; pistols were fired over heads. By nightfall, more than 100 men lay in Puerta del Sol's damp cells...
...England, fox hunting is a ready-made pastime. The tidy, trim fields and meadows offer running space for hound and horse, arid tricky as the fox is, he cannot disguise his scent, which hangs heavy in England's damp countryside. Transplanted to the U.S., the sport has become even sportier-for the fox-as was demonstrated last week at Fort Campbell, Ky., where some 700 hunters and 300 hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both...