Word: damp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
...Brinkley's guest the following week. Haig has learned to evade by being, if Noah Webster will allow the word, circumloquacious. "I'm sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat of two Soviet clients, Syria and the P.L.O.? Haig has learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions...
...Germans occupied the palace during World War II, and afterward visitors discovered white mushrooms growing on the cold, damp walls and rain dripping from the frescoed ceilings onto the parquet floors. The Rockefeller family again spearheaded a fund-raising drive. Today more than 60 rooms are open to the public, and fully half of the palace has been restored. Total price tag since 1950: about $75 million. Versailles now ranks as France's third biggest tourist attraction; only the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Eiffel Tower are more popular...
...Falklands. Conditions guarantee an ugly, unpleasant engagement. The Falklands, cold, damp, desolate clumps of rock set in a storm-tossed ocean, are a dismal place for military operations. By last weekend the Argentine forces, composed in part of raw recruits conscripted only months be fore, were dug in on the mossy, treeless, windy wasteland. They were waiting for British troops, who, though surely more experienced and better trained, had al ready endured what must have seemed like an eternity of confinement and sea sickness on the violent South Atlantic. It appeared, as it has been from the first, a confrontation...
...Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...