Word: damping
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...Voltaire's Candide, this middle-American college girl offers "charity" to every man she meets. Though written in the third person, the leering narration synchs up with the mock-erotic dialogue spoken by the characters: Candy's womanhood is described with phrases like "honey-pot," "jelly box," and "sweetening damp"; her breasts are "pert and inquisitive," and she beseeches a homeless hunchback, to whom she is being charitable, "Hurt me as they have hurt you ... Give me your hump...
...American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again, and the real prospect of more widespread killing looms. So what came of all that effort to make Macedonia the star pupil of the troubled western Balkans? Was the problem intractable? Or was the response inadequate...
Raju and Sheru shuffle about looking for a damp spot in the shade. It's hot, the flies are bothering them and they're bored. Unemployment is no fun for a performing bear...
...disease is highly mobile: It can be carried through the air, in animal by-products, on the dirt on people's shoes or on farm equipment. Foot-and-mouth thrives in dark, damp places, like barns, and can be destroyed with heat, sunlight and disinfectants. That's why pasteurized or cooked meats and dairy products are exempt from...
...spectacularly imperfect voting methods in use around the U.S.--scribbled paper, antique voting machines and those finicky punch cards--hundreds of thousands of ballots are discarded each year. American political campaigns may be marvels of scientific polling and precision focus groups. Then comes Election Day and a piece of damp cardboard...