Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...steep curve of the first arch. "When we want to come over to the Business School, we travel on the surface." We began to wish we had been as smart, for by now the roof was so low that we had to scramble awkwardly along a cold, damp floor, and as the curve flattened out at the peak of the arch, we were forced to crawl on hands and knees. Then, at last, we started downhill, again able to walk upright...
...cariocas pranced and danced along the Avenida Presidente Vargas beneath a storm of confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair. "We are wet and dirty but not ashamed," said one dramatically. "The Communists threatened our right to carry this beautiful flag. Now we are fighting for our liberty." The man at the piano struck up the national anthem; all joined...
...produce or shop for their needs; huddled protectively in the railway stations between trains, they exude the musty smell of damp wool, onions, bitter tobacco and accumulated sweat that has blanketed Russia far longer and more pervasively than Marxism...
While sloppy, wet, and generally miserable weather continues to inundate Cambridge for the next few months, 'Cliffies will no longer have to arrive in class with their long hair damp and stringy. A general metamorphosis of the Radcliffe image may begin today when the Harvard Student Agencies starts its long-awaited bus service from the Radcliffe quad to Harvard Yard...