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...cemetery, six bareheaded youths—Private Weiner was only 18—carried the casket to a green hill among the sycamores. Nine solemn-faced Marines stood guard. When the body was lowered into the damp, fresh-dug grave, they fired three volleys into the leaden sky. Lots of people wept...
...lady's request, one day, Bernadette swallowed some of the damp cave mud (and vomited); the mud became an abundant spring. That spring, according to scientific analysis, is pure drinking water; but in it, a few days later, a paralytic baby in the spasms of death was immersed, recovered, and lived to see Bernadette sainted 75 years later in the greatest 20th-century feast of the Roman Church...
...metal method was evolved through rigorous experimentation. Mrs. Mullen left her paintings out in snowstorms, stowed them in damp places, cooked them on hot radiators, to see how they would take it. Using a surface prepared by etching and acid, with tested paints and finishes, she learned how to accomplish a sound union between the metals and oils...
...lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
...side-wheeler Brinckerhoff, veteran of 41 years on the Hudson River, carried the quiet group through the river-damp darkness, across the stream and back. Its searchlight picked out Poughkeepsie's Main Street. Its steel-hooped sides girded against the groaning wooden racks. The Poughkeepsie ferry, tarnation old, almost as old as the nation (it had crisscrossed the Hudson since 1798), had made its last...