Word: damping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 5,000 miles from familiar forests, the traveling New Zealand naturalists were delighted to find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
...three hoods from the Italian Thunderbirds, one of whom makes animal noises, wears a cape and calls himself Batman. But the prosecutor's personal life keeps getting in the way. He seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that he can get the governorship (Hollywood has decided all voters are out for blood). One of the defendants turns...
...precious in India to clutter up with buildings. As he made his rounds of the villages, Peace Corpsman Shriver seemed suspicious that things might have been fancied up in preparation for his arrival; he tested with his forefinger the whitewash on walls to make certain it was not still damp, turned to escorting Indian officials for assurance that there had been no abnormal cleanups. "But," protested one village leader, "only last evening we learned you were coming. Nothing is prearranged, that is certain...
They must have endurance, because many of the games are played in cold, damp weather which tightens the muscles and numbs the fingers. And they must have patience, since games are often not played at all when the capricious New England weather gets too bad. Add to that list a true desire to play, because row upon row of empty stands face the college baseball player when he steps onto the field. This last point is especially disheartening at Harvard, where games are played next to the football Stadium that houses the cries of thousands of fans in the fall...
...Damp Crocodile. Rain was falling as the marchers entered London, and the Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple acidly described the march as "a damp crocodile, four-fifths of them teen-agers living on sausages, posing for photographs." But many were sincere pacifists and idealists. Inevitably, too,,some Communists joined the march, and Moscow and Peking radios gave the demonstrations a big play as symbolizing British sentiment...