Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through 1964) is to get some fun out of it-particularly at the Democrats' expense. Last week, in a speech before a Republican fund-raising dinner in Danbury, Conn., Republican Keating reviewed "the Democratic Astronautical Missile Program, familiarly known to those of us in the scientific world as DAMP," offered his own tongue-in-cheek countdown on the five leading Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination. Keating's guided missiles...
...general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony go off like damp firecrackers...
...roughly used by all who know them, of babies who bring brief happiness to love-starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped his eyes. There must be One Above who decided these things. That must be his consolation...
Since then, tourists and art students have flocked into the Lascaux Cave, bringing with them damp air which threatened the existence of what they came to see. Taking alarm, French authorities closed the cave during the winter months while they installed air conditioning of the sort used on submarines, will celebrate the reopening next week...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...