Word: damp
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...eight or more teams) would have to compensate the player's old team with someone from its own 40-man roster (up to 18 players could be protected). But few clubs would risk signing any free agent but a superstar under that condition. The proposal is designed to damp the salary explosion that has occurred since the reserve clause, which bound players to their original teams, was overturned by an arbitrator in 1975. Today even middling players are being given $300,000 contracts. Unable to restrain themselves, the owners demanded statutory relief. Said Houston Astros Owner John McMullen...
...Vance has always been a clean-desk man, so it did not take him long to prepare to leave Washington. That gave him plenty of time on his last day to say goodbye to staffers. Some came out of his mahogany-paneled office with damp eyes. Vance's own voice grew husky...
...remember when Harvard track last won a Greater Boston championship outdoors. Yesterday began inauspiciously, a cold, damp afternoon at B.C., when the thinclads started winning and never stopped, piled up 97 points to B.U.'s 72, and won the meet...
Backstage just after an exhausting performance, the star brims with energy. She hugs well-wishers and exults at the surprise appearance of a California friend. Wiping her damp ginger hair away from her forehead, she smiles easily, deep lines creasing the corners of her famous large brown eyes. Sipping a Tab, she jokes about an opening-night telegram sent by Actor Edward Asner (Lou Grant): NICE TO KNOW ALL THOSE DANCING LESSONS HAVE PAID OFF AT LAST. When one visitor notes how plain her dressing room is, Mary Tyler Moore laughs. "I've had beautiful dressing rooms in terrible...
More heretically, Williams believes that "child labor laws should be reexamined. Back in the 1930s, they protected young people from working in cold and damp or dangerous mines. Today these same laws protect them from working in air-conditioned offices. If a 14-year-old is not benefiting from school, perhaps he should be allowed to leave and get work in a car wash. Perhaps then he will discover he cannot get ahead without an education, and that lesson in life will motivate him to return to school...