Word: damp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard still overpowered the Big Green, despite damp court conditions. Even though Captain Adam Beren did not travel to Dartmouth and the lineup had to be shifted up, the Crimson lost only one singles and one doubles contest...
Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration by midweek concluded that the melodious mood music might just prove soothing enough to produce an unwarranted euphoria in the nation and world. Accordingly, Washington moved to damp it down. At a Thursday news conference held for that purpose, Secretary of State Shultz asserted that "signals are fine" and the U.S. appreciated the "great courtesy" that Andropov had shown toward himself and Bush, but "the thing we are really looking for . . . is the substance of change in behavior." As Shultz noted, no sooner had Brezhnev been laid to rest than "it was as though someone threw...
...groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came to me he must have swallowed it. See,' Mills says, and he raises his arms still higher, bringing his palms together in which [his victim's] bowels slosh, collision and shift like so much damp, dark, swollen seaweed beneath his offering, the surgical, amputate bribegold steaming like carrots in soup...
Terror reigned on the beach. Highway blockades stopped the bus two miles from my house, and I hiked the last stretch of cold, damp sand, with my pants rolled up. The beach was thronged with people--screaming and shouting or talking in barely audible whispers. It was crowded with horses and dogs, children and mothers. On the other side of the road, the cliffs were ablaze and a strong, hot wind blew cinders and smoke, turning the palm trees into flaming torches and sending crowds scurrying to the water's edge. There were fathers looking for children, children looking...
...necessity would prompt a descent into Harvard's bowels. The tunnels are fairly small, approximately eight feet square on average, and crowded with pipes. The heat can be sweltering, ordinarily about 100*F but rising above 120* in the dead of winter when all steam lines are in use Damp stains and sporadic graffiti blotch the concrete walls and slimy puddles stretch along sections of the narrow passageways...