Word: damped
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...lovers, a multimillionaire entrepreneur. "Men are envious -- women are impressed." Claudia is also formidable. Her only child Lisa cowers in the knowledge that she is too "pallid" to be a worthy offspring of this latter-day Artemis. Lisa's husband is understandably terrified of his mother-in-law too. "Damp handshake, damp opinions," sighs Claudia with a snob's sere accuracy. "At the very sight of me his vowels falter...
Hopefully, you were wise enough to assume that most of those vacations, described as "fun-filled excursions at a luxurious four-star resort" were actually five cold, damp nights in a cheap plastic tent on mosquito-infested swampland. And hopefully the Board of Overseers will treat the administration's advice with the same skepticism...
Darkness has fallen on Cambridge, England, and on a damp and chilly evening King's Parade is filled with students and faculty. Then, down the crowded thoroughfare comes the University of Cambridge's most distinctive vehicle, bearing its most distinguished citizen. In the motorized wheelchair, boyish face dimly illuminated by a glowing computer screen attached to the left armrest, is Stephen William Hawking, 46, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists. As he skillfully maneuvers through the crowd, motorists slow down, some honking their horns in greeting. People wave. "Hi, Stephen," they shout...
...what part computers that make trades semiautomatically played in touching off the gigantic volume of sell orders. Taking no chances, however, the Big Board after the Monday debacle instituted restrictions on so-called program trades of large portfolios of stock carried out by computer, in order to damp down price swings...
...cold, damp New Haven night passes. The morning doesn't look or feel much different...