Word: damping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Piccadilly one day, a giant (6 ft. 4 in.) California javelin thrower named Butch Likins decided to improve on the ineffective way a pushcart peddler hawked his peaches. Butch took over. His basso-profundo split the damp London air: "Ripe, juicy, California peaches! Buy your peaches here." When the fruit was sold Butch turned the money over to the peddler, said, "Now, that's the way they sell peaches in California...
Flags & Firsts. One evening after dark, a Californian (assisted by an outlander from the state of Washington) shinnied over the fence into damp and deserted Wembley Stadium. The only light they could see was the Olympic flame flickering in its great urn. They slipped past the guards, climbed up onto the roof and hauled down the large five-ringed Olympic flag, which waved above the royal box. Into a bag it went. Following it went some smaller flags-the British, Dutch, Panamanian and Italian. Then they escaped...
...Risk of War." Besieged Berlin was tense and tired. A chilly rain fell. U.S. and British armored cars prowled sluggishly through streets that breathed the smells peculiar to ruins in the rain-smells of wet bricks, damp dust and scorched wood. On street corners, people gathered to haggle over the exchange rate between Soviet and Western marks or to buy black market herring. At the Anhalter station, where the city's food supplies from the Western zones used to roll in, before the Russians blocked the railway, only a few forlorn figures stirred-an old man in ill-fitting...
...Derby Day jockeying of the candidates gave Philadelphia the look and sound of a midway. The tabloid New York Daily News suggested that its atmosphere could be sampled by remote control simply by "swallowing a snort of bourbon, lighting a cigarette, putting scented talcum powder on a damp baby and inhaling...
...dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...