Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happy. Vermont housewives with refrigerators full of thawing food calmly transferred everything to a more capacious freezer?the backyard. In the fireplaces of $40,000 suburban homes, paunchy businessmen crouched to kindle damp charcoal and concoct Boy Scout mulligan stew...
Establishing colonies in abandoned walls, on the underside of rocks, on cave walls damp with waterfall spray under tree roots, in abandoned cars in Telephone booths and even in traffic lights, the Africans have killed birds chickens dogs, pigs, horses and four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras, near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome...
...People's Wars." In contrast to Western efforts to damp the fires, Red China was gleefully pouring fuel on them. Cheering on Pakistan, Peking accused India of "aggression," aroused fears that it might repeat its 1962 invasion of India. The Chinese thus effectively immobilized at least half a dozen of India's 20 army divisions, which remained grimly in place along the northern border...
...credit of both governments, each was doing what it could to damp down the possibility of religious massacres. Most of Pakistan's Hindus are in the East zone, so far little affected by the war. Pledges of loyalty to India came from many communities among the nation's 47 million Moslem subjects. Two Moslems sit in Shastri's Cabinet, and there are many scattered through the government and the army. Shastri has urged "internal harmony" upon his countrymen...
Mzee, the "old one," as he likes to be called, was once a Communist, then leader of the bloody Mau-Mau rebellion, and finally the first Prime Minister of Kenya. It might have been those eight years in a damp jail cell that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo...