Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards of two world wars into meeting grounds for a new generation of Europeans...
...lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among the abounding roaches...
...quality in Enrica's world. About the only variety in her life, and this too is minimal, are the scenes of her love-making. Usually it is in Cesare's bedroom, but once he takes her on the shore of a lake, and another boy makes her on the damp floor of an abandoned workman's shed...
Although the field will be damp from thundershowers that are expected to continue into the early morning, clearing skies and temperatures of 70 degrees are predicted for game time...
...might easily have been mistaken for spies. In the damp night they parked their car carefully-down the road from one of the buildings of Lincoln Laboratory, the Lexington, Mass., research center that M.I.T. operates for the U.S. Government. Through the car window they sighted in on the lab with a snooperscope, a World War II device for spotting objects in the dark. And they saw just what they were looking for. "We're in!" exclaimed one of the men with ill-concealed excitement...