Word: damping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovers were pulling themselves away from their after-supper TV and their hi-fi sets. Into private cars and public buses they loaded blankets, cushions and bottles of anti-bug lotions, and rode off to the local stadiums and amphitheaters. At about twilight, they plumped by the thousands on damp grass, slatted benches or cold concrete, and spent the evening straining to catch the sounds of distant fiddling, blowing or singing. In short, the U.S. outdoor music season was under...
...early June's uneven weather. Horrible example: in Washington's Carter Barron Amphitheater the youthful National Ballet Company of Canada, a fountain display called "Dancing Waters" and some unchoreographed water from the clouds joined forces. But the capital's outdoor musical types imperturbably risked the damp and cold, turned out an average 3,000 strong every night for the first week. The Carter Barron budget allows for one rained-out night for each of its 13 weeks...
...looked like a bad day for the big spin in "The Brickyard." Grey rain clouds scudded over Indianapolis; damp winds skittered across the infield as the Memorial Day 500-mile auto race got under way. But Wild Bill Vukovich, 36, the "Grape Picker" from Fresno, Calif., had no time to worry about weather. He kept his eyes on the track. A two-time winner in the 500, "Vuky" was hell-bent on pulling off an unprecedented three...
...odds-on favorite to win his eleventh race in a row, Paul Andolino's disheveled little sprinter, Boston Doge, just could not get going on Belmont's damp track, finished a bad third behind Nance's Lad and Informant in the Swift Stakes...
...like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London. Its people are a nubbly mixture of English yeomen, Welsh shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that...