Word: damping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...refused to give the hiding place of Yacef Saadi. For the next 17 days she was in the hands of the French paratroops. In her testimony later, Djamila said she was beaten repeatedly. Djamila testified: "They stripped me naked and tied me on a bench, taking care to put damp cloths under the cords that bound me. They then fixed electric contacts to my sexual organs, my ears, my mouth, the palms of my hands, my nipples, and my forehead. At 3 in the morning I fainted. Later, I became delirious. Every time, while one of the paratroopers worked...
...table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...
...Royal Film Performance in London this fall, Queen Elizabeth II faced a scrawny, sharp-featured young man with shaggy blond hair lying like a bunch of damp seaweed across his forehead. How, the Queen asked, did he like movie work...
Silence hung like a damp rag over the bar; George impaled one lima bean on a toothpick and examined...