Word: damp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of the more than 4000 runners who tackled the arduous race course, the cement walls and damp, chilled air of the garage was a welcome end, a retreat from a grueling test of stamina and determination...
...literary magazines. Asked by New Yorker Fiction Editor Katherine White, "Why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn. "Mothers are hardest to forgive," she wrote. "Life is the fruit they long to hand you/ Ripe on a plate. And while you live,/ Relentlessly they understand you." A wife and mother who put her family before her muse, McGinley rebutted feminists who belittled homemaking. Said McGinley...
...open his off-campus shows on the current tour, he has been hiring local strippers at each of his stops. They are a perfect prelude for the act that follows. When Waits finally takes the stage, an air of crushed cigarettes and damp napkins clings to him like lint. Beat-up pointed shoes, a greasy tie and baggy socks go just fine with his Salvation Army suit...
ITHACA, N.Y.--For 110 minutes they played on windswept, bitterly damp Schoellkopf Field here Saturday, and for 110 minutes the nets remained empty. The final tally read Harvard 0-Cornell 0, but if gutsy performances in the face of imposing odds count for anything in sports, it was a clearcut Harvard...
...advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...