Word: damp
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...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...
...food-finder. Mosquitoes were attracted by air which had blown past a human being. They could also feel warmth at considerable distance. A human forearm cooled a few degrees did not interest them. If heated slightly it attracted them quickly. Moisture was important too. But on very damp days, a sweaty forearm was not as attractive as on dry days...
...brand-new book, and it's hard to say which seems older. There is no question which seems pleasanter: the tunes borrowed from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller and The Serenade are melodious and nicely sung. But they are not quite pleasant enough to offset the damp-towel libretto or save an evening...
...never know him, that here was a man whom it would be impossible to call a friend. ... No flicker of interest lifted his hooded eyelids. . . . When I looked full at him I saw nothing, nothing but a lifeless figure, wrapped in a palpable coldness that hid him as a damp cloth hides a sculptor's clay...
...dairy cattle neither thrive nor give much milk in damp, semitropical climates. In Florida and Louisiana, the milk flow of Jerseys, Guernseys and other familiar breeds falls off as much...