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Flop like a damp gate...
Finally: Finally, I sink down on damp grass, Bryant Park. Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. Almost 8 p. m., darkening tired; people all around. More speeches, but I don't listen; will read about in tomorrow's Times. We sit in the damp, and it grows too dark to see the speakers, and with 20,000 people around me (the park's capacity) I feel very alone. What do we want? so many, men and women, have asked today. I want to be a woman, equal in the eyes of the world and free within my own head...
...weather was damp and cloudy as the Soviet Union's No. 1 soccer fan took his seat in Moscow's Lenin Stadium last week to watch the hometown Torpedoes defeat the Kiev Dynamos, 1 to 0. But as political observers on both sides of the Iron Curtain immediately realized, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was also playing a game all his own. Only two days earlier, Brezhnev had abruptly canceled his plans to visit Bucharest for the long-delayed signing of a new Soviet-Rumanian friendship pact, pleading a "catarrhal ailment." His subsequent appearance at the soccer match...
...goes. Now 378 of the 942 living members of the Class of 1945 have returned for their 25th. And on these damp June evenings of 1970, as they support each other (and their wives) tweedily, unsteadily, and arthritically up the paths to their headquarters in the Freshman Union after heavy afternoons of reminiscing and imbibing, surely someone must realize how unlikely it all is-that the whole thing can't go on much longer...
...carefully heightening my responses... I swept my hair back from my damp forehead... I cut in to lighten the air heavy from adversary debating...