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...tangled white curls were damp with perspiration; his face was pale. The pouches beneath his eyes were dark; his voice was hoarse but strong. "Too long have we ridden the grey ghost of me-tooism," he said. "When the roll is called, I shall cast my vote for Barry Goldwater...
...mellifluent, loquacious, rumpled, dimpled, damp, and wondrous Wizard of Ooze has done it again; Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen has confounded nearly everyone by announcing that he will place in nomination at the Republican convention the name of a man whom he denounced strongly in the Senate only eleven days...
Plucked from a conference table in Geneva, U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball last week flew to Athens and Ankara as a special envoy of President Johnson. His job: to damp down the latest Cyprus crisis caused by the sudden massing of Turkish troops at the seaport of Iskenderun...
...first heard of the cross eight years ago; it had been stashed away in a Swiss bank vault by an Austrian collector. It was carved from seven pieces of walrus tusk, a distinctly North European material; and from such traits of style as "damp folds"-garments that cling smoothly around the anatomy-Met Associate Curator of Medieval Art Thomas P. F. Hoving deduced that the cross was from late 12th century England...
Serious problems accompany this tryst, however, as the still maiden Candy is disturbed to find that giving is not really a great sacrifice: "when the gardener's hand closed on her pelvis and into the damp, she stiffened slightly: she was quite prepared to undergo pain for him...but pleasure--she was not sure how that could be a part of the general picture." Even more disturbing, Daddy barges into the room just as the "gardener would have entered her...with a terrible thrust to the hilt, so to speak...