Word: damp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the rest of his fellows, his aristocratic tendencies served to widen the gulf. He took private rooms at No. 16 Winthrop Street, a house which stood at the northeast corner of the present IAB. He did this for two reasons--his health was still not perfect, and only damp first-floor rooms were available in the Yard; and he liked seclusion for working on his natural history specimens and his historical writing. Even though friends sought to bring him into student society, he retained his private rooms throughout his college years...
...rings the loudest--at the moment it was the Salvation Army's turn out in front of the Harvard Trust. Rain was coming down steadily and the Army bellringer was too for out on the sidewalk to get much protection from the bank's shelter. He huddled in his damp uniform and rang loudly to keep warm...
...these necessary jobs at the embassy was the ritual burning of each day's decoded dispatches. At first the attache in charge carefully supervised Francesco's performance of this daily chore, but after a time (and after Francesco had thoughtfully filled the furnace with damp paper to ensure the production of clouds of steamy smoke that stung diplomatic eyes) the attache let him go it alone. Francesco burned a few of the papers and took the rest (for a small fee) to the Italian military intelligence. "I was certainly not qualified," he writes modestly, "to select the material...
...damp victory kept the Lions running well toward the front in the race for professional football's Western Conference championship. And even the Lions' veteran (30) Quarterback Bobby Layne. the man with the golden arm. admits that it is such defensive experts as Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they...
...missed a plane, and he was delivered (to Athens) on a cargo plane in time to make the concert. Spare reeds and strings were plentiful; even the tympani player got around his problem of extremes of humidity by putting the drumheads under a hair drier when they loosened in damp climates and covering them with wet diapers when they got too tight in dry climates...