Word: damping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance Ngo Ba Thanh, an authority on international law trained at Columbia Law School, has been repeatedly imprisoned for her outspoken opposition to the Thieu regime. Although her damp cell at Thu Duc prison has aggravated her already severe asthma, Mrs. Thanh refuses to surrender her beliefs...
...damp cold lawn & down...
...cold miserable rain had forced the contest from Princeton's comfortable outdoor courts to their hard surfaces inside and the switch proved to be to Harvard's advantage. The Jadwin surface was fairly similar to the Palmer Dixon courts where the Crimson had been restricted by snow and damp grounds throughout March, and Harvard consequently salvaged a split of the first four singles contests...
...mother never hung it on the kitchen door, because he never let her see it... Once, at 3 a.m.... he tried another poem... And he called it absolutely nothing, because that's what it was all about. And he gave himself an "A" And a slash on each damp wrist, And hung it on the bathroom door because he couldn't reach the kitchen...
...date of their origin. Finds include animal and human bones, worked stones, bits of metal, coins, glass, trading tokens and pottery. Although metal, unlike the other objects, encrusts with soil as it degenerates, it is identifiable by its density and bright color in the soil. If the soil is damp enough, organic material--leather, insects and their eggs, seeds, rope, wood, flesh, grass and flowers, cloth, animal and human feces--remains fresh and preserved. Non-organic finds, pottery and bones, are washed by the diggers, who quickly learned that potwashing with a toothbrush and cold water is no privilege. Organic...