Word: damping
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...even the Kennedys could produce spring on demand, however, and the wedding day dawned damp and cool. But at the white clapboard St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, as the jubilant bride arrived in a muslin silk and lace Marc Bohan gown, she had a sunny smile for crowds that had been gathering since before 9 a.m. Helping the bride with her 11-ft. train were her ten attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film...
...Often, the team made those ghosts sing. Three adaptations in the early '90s?Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Howards End and The Remains of the Day?lit a fire under the damp logs of failure, compromise and regret. These were elegant films, but also powerful movies, tragedies in a whisper. The Hollywood establishment nodded Merchant-Ivory's way, with 31 Oscar nominations and six statuettes; but Merchant still had to work his charm, hard, to finance their pictures. Not to worry. Another meal from this consummate host, this gourmet of life (he owned a restaurant and wrote several books on cuisine...
...random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving rain, I was both glad to have gone on the tour and glad to be done with it. The libraries had their charmsthe spiral staircases in the stacks, the housemasters smiling down at us from their portraits on the walls, the people who were still studying for exams...
This summer, I shall renounce 02138 and return to my home city: Jakarta, Indonesia. The city is exhilarating and alive, damp and disgusting, and I cannot wait to return. It is home to 9.5 million people (officially) and doesn’t come close to anything in North America. Sadly, however, you, my Harvard peer, will not be visiting me anytime soon, not even on the way to study abroad...
...People have been asking that question ever since the era of reform began there in 1980. Yet China has continued to sustain 8%, 9%, 10% growth and even higher. Now they are trying to damp down the growth because they're concerned about overinvestment and inflation. We should never assume things will continue in a straight line. But as long as China and India are experiencing a strong economic growth rate, that translates into higher oil demand...