Word: damp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have tried to damp down sexism, racism, classism, veneration of old Harvard for the wrong reasons by laughing at it whenever we’ve seen it,” Moses told The Crimson...
...With perfect control, she grabbed his collar and ripped open his shirt. She heard the buttons skitter to the floor as she stared at the damp hair clinging to his pallid chest. She paused, breathing heavily, as Frederick blinked at her. Almost trembling with contempt, she pursed her lips and spat in his face...
...Harvard men’s lacrosse team sunk the Stony Brook Sea Wolves, 9-6, in a tight game with a memorable third-period surge led by sophomores on a damp Saturday afternoon at Jordan Field. “We had a lot more enthusiasm today,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “We could have taken a step back last week after losing, but I think the guys stepped up and it showed a lot about their character.” Last time the teams met, Harvard walked away with a 13-8 loss...
...procession had started at the Parliament, wending its way through damp Belgrade streets to the monumental St. Sava Church, the largest Serbian Orthodox church in the Balkans. There, high priests delivered "prayers for Kosovo." The former Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn sent greetings from his home in the U.S. state of Vermont, calling on Serbs to "stand by your graves." (Kosovo is the site of a famous defeat at the hands of the Ottomans that is deemed a cradle of Serbian identity...
...whenever she heard Obama speak. And now it was happening again as mother and daughter sat side by side on the family-room sofa in a suburb of St. Louis, watching the results of the Iowa caucuses on TV. "You know you believe in him," Maddie admonished her damp-eyed mother. "It's time to step up." The next morning, Maddie, a college freshman home for the holidays, added a threat: "You have to do it, or I'm never talking to you again...