Word: damping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a plastic surgeon thumbing through a handsome, two-volume medical work last week was startled to find, under the unscientific heading, "Oops!", this homely advice: "Once a graft has been cut, it should be folded, wrapped in a damp gauze and put in a safe place until time for its application. Too often in its trip around the theatre it gets thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there...
...uncomfortable as they have been, the present low-20-degree weather will keep snow on the ground, to hamper post-exam travelling. Students will note Winter's clever timing in bringing record low temperature days as Harvard returned from the holidays, and now in assuring difficult exit from cold, damp Cambridge...
They had to be discreet. Minutes after making their last appearance, the entire Hungarian gymnast team was whisked away by friends to a safe and secret hiding place. Some of the championship water poloists were still damp from a workout in the pool-and still mad over their encounter with the Russians (see SPORT)-when they, too, were hurried...
...Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley: "I am not a fanciful man, but when...
Love Me Tender (20th Century-Fox). Is it a sausage? It is certainly smooth and damp-looking, but who ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...