Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deflated pompous Preacher Hugh Marlowe, and increased the pulse beat of pretty but repressed Nurse Joanne Dru. Then Webb is exposed as a fraudulent oldster and, somewhat irrationally, the other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms, the oldsters acting kittenish again, and Webb walking jauntily off into the sunset...
...Counter-Attractions. The Reds expected their doves to carry these themes home with them, and many would. But thousands of the young Red delegates, disillusioned with the damp tent camps provided them, were more interested in the well-stocked shops on the west side of the Branderrburger Tor. West Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter ordered his police to keep all Red troublemakers out, but invited the peaceful doves to "come in, look around and breathe the free air of West Berlin for a few minutes...
Lake the John Reed Club, religion, is being driven underground at Harvard. Forced to the damp sub-cellars of Eliot House, faith, like a frightened and desperate mongoose, flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...
During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...
...Feeling with my hands, after a long time I found two boards. They were damp, but they were whole, and they became my bed. They were about three feet long. I was able at first to get little sleep because rats kept scurrying over me. I have always been a friend of small animals, but the thought of rats kept me from sleeping, so I passed unforgettable moments of intimate union with the crucifix, which I conjured up before my mind. My own had been removed at the prison gates...