Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four days of inactivity, caused by rain-swept fields at Springfield and Amherst, the varsity prepared for its first home game with a light, intra-squad workout. The damp weather and forced idleness seemed to have slightly dulled the team's hitting. Stuffy McInnis' boys were, for the most part, popping pitches into the air; only first baseman Russ Johnson and catcher Charlie Walsh consistently smashed line drives...
Last week, after a sell-out first performance, the splash almost swamped Director Rosenstock with criticism. None of the critics doused Wozzeck itself; their damp words were reserved for City Opera's new English-language production...
...sued for the privilege of using the house, too. In the first place, he said, he heard that Eleanor had barricaded the front door with his $75,000 Rembrandt, had flung a Franz Hals portrait and a Turner landscape into a damp basement liquor closet, along with his valuable collection of antique silver by Paul Storr, silversmith to George III. Things like these needed a man's protection. Rose said he would also like to pick up some of his winter coats and suits, and furthermore he needed the house in order to entertain properly. His Ziegfeld Theater apartment...
...high Israeli officer reported husky, 16-year-old boys smoking in their damp beds while a few feet away 18-year-old soldiers, called to emergency duty, struggled to repair their tents. "They're like the D.P.s in Europe," he complained. "They don't see the point of helping themselves...
...though many more wanted to come to church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...